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How are you spending the summer solstice?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 21, 2023, 10:12:38 am ---Yes, but we gain an hour of delightful nighttime!
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Not a fan. I prefer longer daylight hours.
From Martin Luther's prayer for morning:
"We give thanks to you, heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ your dear Son, that you have protected us through the night from all danger and harm."
I subscribe to a small devotional booklet published quarterly by the ELCA. The cover on the issue for the next quarter has a picture of trees clad in lovely fall foliage.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 21, 2023, 08:02:56 am ---Friday we lose an hour of daylight.
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I'm with you on preferring daylight, but what does this mean? We won't lose an hour of daylight two days from now. Am I reading it wrong or misunderstanding some fundamental aspect of seasonal change?
I'm looking at Minneapolis numbers, where sunset remains at 9:03 p.m. through the end of the month and sunrise is only three minutes later on June 30 (from 5:26 a.m. now to 5:29 a.m.).
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 21, 2023, 11:53:10 am ---I'm with you on preferring daylight, but what does this mean? We won't lose an hour of daylight two days from now. Am I reading it wrong or misunderstanding some fundamental aspect of seasonal change?
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No, what you're reading is my somehow typing hour when I meant minute. :( >:(
I'm going back and fixing that idiotic mistake.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 21, 2023, 11:53:10 am ---I'm looking at Minneapolis numbers, where sunset remains at 9:03 p.m. through the end of the month and sunrise is only three minutes later on June 30 (from 5:26 a.m. now to 5:29 a.m.).
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This is really so stupid. We've had this discussion before. I know all about the tilt of the earth's axis. I know all about "the land of the midnight sun," and all. I even just looked at a graphic of the movement of the earth around the sun. Today summer begins in the northern hemisphere; the sun at noon is over the tropic of Cancer. Yet when I visualize the apparent motion of the sun against the earth, I cannot visualize why it doesn't get darker sooner the farther north you go. I wish I could. :(
The streets of Philadelphia are said to run east and west. In reality, they're tilted a bit, so the streets actually run a bit east northeast to a bit south southwest. My building is on the south side of an east-west street, so it runs parallel to the street. There is a window at the east end of the hallway.
When I went into the office each morning, it was neat that I could see the apparent motion of the sun through the window. At the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, the morning sun would be shining directly into the window and down the hall. At the summer solstice, the sun would appear to be so far north that it would be shining against the south wall of the hallway. At the winter solstice, the sun would appear to be so far south that it would be shining against the north wall of the hallway. I could watch the change of the seasons by the apparent motion of the sun through the window. It was fun, and it gave me a feeling of being connected to our very ancient past. :)
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 21, 2023, 08:02:56 am ---Somebody go bang on the lid of Chuck's coffin.
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Ahhhhh....the end of Longerdays, and the start of Shorterdays! :laugh:
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