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- From: isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak)
- Subject: Re: Direction of the sun
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.223738.15236@aurora.com>
- Summary: atmospheric refraction
- Reply-To: isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak)
- Organization: The Aurora Group
- References: <1992Dec24.012636.17115@Csli.Stanford.EDU> <1hjv7nINN34t@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 22:37:38 GMT
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- I'm suprised no nitpickers have yet pointed out that the Earth's atmosphere
- refracts the sun's light, so that, even if the Earth and sun were stationary
- relative to each other, the sun's true position would be below the horizon
- when it appeared to be just above it.
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- Mark Isaak "Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every
- isaak@aurora.com generation is humbled by nature." - Philip Lubin
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