By Brett Fisher

  • Photos by Brett Fisher. The sun begins to crest over the Pine Nut Range to the east of Carson City Saturday morning.
    Photos by Brett Fisher. The sun begins to crest over the Pine Nut Range to the east of Carson City Saturday morning.
  • The sun rises over Carson City Saturday morning, taken from the Jack C. Davis Observatory.
    The sun rises over Carson City Saturday morning, taken from the Jack C. Davis Observatory.

The sun peeked over the Pine Nut Range east of Carson City just a few minutes after 6:30 a.m. Saturday morning. The morning temperature low at that time was about 47 degrees.