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Being careful with directions

Now hang on a minute! Just WHERE might you be (and WHEN) to see these
due south or north sunrise/sunset/

The arctic circle perhaps? Are you SURE????


Seems to me that sunrise/sunset directions have got to stay away from
due north/south by ~23.5 degrees?


At 9:26 AM -0500 9/22/99, brian whatcott wrote:
(a divergent meander)

Amplitude is the difference in angle between the naive expectation
(due East) and the actual angle. And it turns out that
dawn's sunrise bearing varies; in some places as widely as between due South
and due North. And of course, at other places and times, dawn and dusk
do not occur.



brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
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