Thread: What is last light?

Regarding the maritime definition that's interesting because for aviation there is a set of tables that depict times which relate to zones depicted on a map of the country. On the table a time is specified for the beginning of morning civil twilight and the end of civil evening twilight for each day of the year. This is because the length of twilight varies according to latitude, sunrise and sunset, and time of year (inclination of the earth's axis) on the equator it's very short, at the poles it can extend for 24 hours. I would guess that the maritime definition only covers NZ and is defined that way for simplicity, but I could be wrong. So anyone or any organisation using that term needs to be specific as to what their reference is. For hunting I agree with SiB above, that's how it's always been as far as I know.