MadSci Network: Astronomy |
I recently was looking at a calander that had various time charts associated with each day. I noticed that the longest day of the year does not occur when sunrise is at the earlist and sunset is at the latest, which would make the most sense to me. In fact, the earlist sunrise and sunset don't occur on the same dat, but weeks apart. Why is this? Is this always true no matter where in the world one lives, or by the equoter the longest day is when sunrise and sunset are at their earlist and latest times, and as you move north or south, this changes?
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