The Natural Navigator» colatitude http://www.naturalnavigator.com Natural navigation, finding our way using nature. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:53:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Equinoctial Sunrise http://www.naturalnavigator.com/equinoctial-sunrise/ http://www.naturalnavigator.com/equinoctial-sunrise/#comments Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:49:00 +0000 admin http://djemerj.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/equinoctial-sunrise/
It is the morning after the equinox and not a bad one either. The sun rises due east on the equinox, but the daily difference is at its greatest at this time too so we have already moved north of…

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It is the morning after the equinox and not a bad one either. The sun rises due east on the equinox, but the daily difference is at its greatest at this time too so we have already moved north of east.

In this picture the horizon is well above sea level because of the hill, so we have to bear in mind that the angle the sun makes to the horizon will be 90 degrees minus our latitude, ie. our colatitude.

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