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late summer sessions

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 8:50 am
by colin
so the solstice is coming up and its the longest day of the year.

i have been told that the sun sets later in the evening after the solstice for a bit but it rises later in the morning at the same time, compensating for the later set.

is this true?

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:00 am
by morewind
I wondered this awhile ago and did some googling... Here is some light :?: reading that explains this phenomenon...

http://homepages.wmich.edu/~korista/sun_riseset.html

ever wonder about that figure-8 on the globe. It ties into this ...

http://www.analemma.de/english/analem.html