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Beginner How does the position of Moonrise and Moonset change? Intermediate At what speed does the Earth move around the Sun? Beginner How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside it? At the summer solstice, the Sun rises as far to the northeast as it ever does, and sets as far to the northwest. Every day after that, the Sun rises a tiny bit further south. At the fall equinox, the Sun rises due east and sets due west.
The even better news is that for the next week or so, the minutes of sunshine will continue increasing by 2 minutes and 8 seconds per day. And for the week or so after that, it will continue increasing at the slightly slower pace of about 2 minutes and 7 seconds per day.
It has been proven that watching the sunrise or sunset gives you a better sense of gratitude for the earth. It was an incredible deduction, even if Ptolemy did believe that the planets and stars, including the sun, literally moved around the Earth.
Today, of course, we believe it's the Earth that's moving in the plane of the ecliptic, not the sun. Astronomers also have a more up-to-date figure for the angle of tilt, If there were no tilt, the Earth would revolve around the sun with its north pole pointing upwards, and the ecliptic and equator would be in the same plane. And, like his famous contemporary Galileo Galilei, Harriot was also a Copernican. So, at the equinoxes, when the declination is zero and therefore so is its sine, the deviation of the direction of sunset is also zero, and the sun sets due west as expected.
So the deviation from due west is just the declination of the sun on that day. For instance, the maximum deviation, at the solstices, is For all other latitudes, the cosine of the latitude is less than one, and since it's on the denominator of the equation, the maximum change in sunset direction is greater than For Melbourne, it's Today, the Gregorian calendar is virtually universally accepted for everyday secular use, but its origin stretches back more than years.
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