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Front-Ranger:
Goodbye to 8 pm sunsets in Denver. Tonight will be the last one until May 2023. :-\
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 11, 2022, 05:43:47 pm ---Goodbye to 8 pm sunsets in Denver. Tonight will be the last one until May 2023. :-\
--- End quote ---
According to my almanac, the last one here will be on Saturday. :(
Just now when I went to check, I saw I had not turned the almanac page over to August. Just too distracted lately.
The moon was full last night. As it was rising it looked like a wheel of Gouda cheese.
CellarDweller:
I just checked this site, it says sunset today will be at 8:01, and sunset on Saturday will be 7:59.
I'm not sure how the site works, and if there would be different times for different areas.
https://www.suntoday.org/sunrise-sunset/2022.html
serious crayons:
Yes, you can set your location. When I pulled it up it was set for Denver. In Minneapolis, today's sunset is at 8:26. One of the few advantages of living this far north. By the end of the month it will be at 7:54.
Although then I plugged in Grand Marais, MN, a small vacation town up by the Canadian border. I've always thought sunset seemed especially late up there. But this table has it slightly earlier than here -- 8:21 and 7:46, respectively.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 12, 2022, 11:20:33 am ---Yes, you can set your location. When I pulled it up it was set for Denver. In Minneapolis, today's sunset is at 8:26. One of the few advantages of living this far north. By the end of the month it will be at 7:54.
Although then I plugged in Grand Marais, MN, a small vacation town up by the Canadian border. I've always thought sunset seemed especially late up there. But this table has it slightly earlier than here -- 8:21 and 7:46, respectively.
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It's the funniest thing. We've had this discussion before, and I still don't get it. :laugh:
I know our seasons come about because of the tilt of the earth's axis roughly 25.5 degrees, and I know "the sun doesn't set above the Artic Circle" in high summer. Yet as I visualize the sun "moving south" from the summer solstice to the autumn equinox, I still don't get why it doesn't get dark earlier "up north." It still seems counterfactual to me, even though I observed the phenomenon first had when I made my big cross-country train trip. It was later in the summer, and when the train stopped in northern Montana, it was light later in the evening than it would be back home. :laugh:
Maybe what I should do is the old science class trick of sticking a pencil through a styrofoam ball and moving it around a light bulb. ;D Then I have to make sure I have the pencil tilted enough and in the right direction. :laugh:
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