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Re: Zenith distance and Ho question.
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2020 Dec 19, 15:52 -0800
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2020 Dec 19, 15:52 -0800
Robert Goldberg,
you wrote:
"But let's say you are at the Tropic of Cancer on the summer solstice (same declination for the sun as your latitude) and assume your longitude is zero degrees (I have no idea where this is--just an example). It you look at the sun at sunrise or sunset, where is the GP of the sun. I assume it has to be 90 degrees and 5400nm away?"
Yes...
Do you find this puzzling in some way? Why were you asking your original question?? Maybe you were asking a different question that's lurking somewhere inside your question as posed? Feel free to elaborate. This isn't a quiz. :)
Frank Reed
