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Re: Sun Slow Day
From: Patrick Goold
Date: 2011 Feb 10, 13:12 -0500
From: Patrick Goold
Date: 2011 Feb 10, 13:12 -0500
Doh! Right. Thanks!
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Dr. Patrick Goold
Department of Philosophy
Virginia Wesleyan College
Norfolk, VA 23502
757 455 3357
Charles Olson: "Love the World -- and stay inside it."
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Apache Runner <apacherunner@gmail.com> wrote:
My question is why, if the maximum variation is 14 min 13 seconds, has the astro website I have been using to tell me the time of meridian passage been telling me LAN is 12:19 here in Portsmouth?What's the problem? If your latitude is is 76.3 degrees W, it's .13 degrees past the mid-point of the time-zone, which adds 5.2 minutes to the LAN at 75 degrees W, and since the Sun is 14 minutes late, that's 19.2 minutes after 12:00, which works out exactly as you'd expect.
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Dr. Patrick Goold
Department of Philosophy
Virginia Wesleyan College
Norfolk, VA 23502
757 455 3357
Charles Olson: "Love the World -- and stay inside it."