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Re: Latitude and longitude around noon
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2017 Mar 27, 18:13 -0400
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2017 Mar 27, 18:13 -0400
My final answer
41°26.925'N
71°23.95W
Just outside Beaver Tail Lighthouse Museum on Beaver Tail point.
Brad
On Mar 27, 2017 6:00 PM, "Robin Stuart" <NoReply_Stuart@fer3.com> wrote:
Hmmm… This problem seems strangely familiar.
http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/
Noon-Sun-sights-Jamestown-RI- this-Sunday-Aug-25-Stuart-aug- 2013-g25027 http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/
Noon-Sun-sights-Jamestown-RI- this-Sunday-Aug-25-Stuart-sep- 2013-g25042 The Sun does not culminate too close to the zenith so a simple least squares fit to a quadratic suffices and gives a peak of 41°29.6′ occurring at 16h58m5s. The Equation of Time is -12m2.4s and with d = +0.1′ per hour the peak occurs 15.4s later than local noon. I get 41°27.2′N 71°26.8′W although I suspect a longitude of around 71°24′W is more likely,
Déjà vu!?
Robin Stuart
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