The Sun is a star.

Once the sphere first touches the horizon line, it takes about 2 minutes to disappear from our view.

This is the last seven seconds covered in 10 clicks of the camera. Because it was shot out of focus the sun continues to appear as a circle and does not sink. Instead it just slowly vanishes, and is gone.

I could not resist putting the images together as an animated GIF loop that speeds it up a bit!

The view is across the water, seen from the porch on St. Simons Sound.

All Images and Text ©2015 Robin Davis