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- From: ref@CS.CMU.EDU (Robert Frederking)
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- Subject: Re: Solstice Question (simple)
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 18:11:58 GMT
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- As several people pointed out to me at the time of the equinox, day is
- significantly longer than night for two additional reasons: refraction
- makes the visual sunrise or sunset happen when the sun is
- approximately one whole solar diameter below the horizon, and each of
- the visual events happens when the upper limb of the sun reaches the
- horizon, rather than the center of the sun. These effects add three
- solar diameters to the length of daylight, which (I hope I get this
- right) is about 1.5 degrees, or 6 minutes of daylight at the equator
- (it adds more time elsewhere, because the sun doesn't travel
- perpendicularly to the horizon elsewhere). [Forgive me, Copernicus.]
-