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Solstice Stuff
Dec. 20th, 2012 05:42 pmSome holiday-season poetry:
http://www.well.com/~bubbles/Poetry/BirthdayOfTheLight.txt
http://www.well.com/~bubbles/Poetry/ChristmasCat.txt
See the Sun getting close to the moment of Solstice:
http://www.plergb.com/Analemma/Analemma.shtml
Notice the item labeled "Sun's longitude" in the bunch of numbers and such just above the image. This starts at zero at the March Equinox and increases until it gets to 360 degrees at the next March Equinox, whereupon it starts over at zero.
At the December Solstice the Sun's longitude will pass 270 degrees as it crosses into the sign of Capricorn (Tropical system). (The page is auto-updated approximately hourly, so you may not see anything happen at the actual moment of alignment.)
( Read more... )
http://www.well.com/~bubbles/Poetry/BirthdayOfTheLight.txt
http://www.well.com/~bubbles/Poetry/ChristmasCat.txt
See the Sun getting close to the moment of Solstice:
http://www.plergb.com/Analemma/Analemma.shtml
Notice the item labeled "Sun's longitude" in the bunch of numbers and such just above the image. This starts at zero at the March Equinox and increases until it gets to 360 degrees at the next March Equinox, whereupon it starts over at zero.
At the December Solstice the Sun's longitude will pass 270 degrees as it crosses into the sign of Capricorn (Tropical system). (The page is auto-updated approximately hourly, so you may not see anything happen at the actual moment of alignment.)
( Read more... )
