Thread: What is last light?

The official almanac sunset time for a place nearby and the actual time you see the sun disappear over the horizon can be different depending on hills and altitude etc. Unless they actually specify sunset times as defined by almanac etc then the observed physical sunset should trump it.

Hard to say exactly when the sun set if you couldn't see it because you were in the bush and/or it was cloudy though, and hard to know when its half an hour before you're about to see the sun rise...

And in practical terms the length of usable twilight can be very different as you get further north/south.

Really the exact minute probably won't matter as long as you don't take the piss.