Happy Winter Solstice

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    26 degrees is angle of sun at noon.
     
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      QUOTE="pete, post: 1293066, member: 13"]26 degrees is angle of sun at noon.[/QUOTE]

      My photography app gives today's max elevation of the sun as 14.7 Deg at 12.26 GMT

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        6 hours 35 minutes here @pete so not far off and with 2 minutes extra daylight today. :) The temperature is way off though, just 4C/39F. Probably due to the snow that's promised for the rest of the week.
         
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          My photography app gives today's max elevation of the sun as 14.7 Deg at 12.26 GMT

          View attachment 151333 [/QUOTE]
          My post related to the sun in the Algarve where Victoria is.
          I stated 15 degrees for my location which was possibly a slight rounding up or down.
           
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            Well I wasn't sure of your exact location so I guess on Aberdeen.:biggrin:
            The degrees measurement is angle of sun at solar noon.
             
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              Aberdeen's 100 miles south-east of where I am @pete. My location, well almost, is in my avatar box. :)

              Sun? What sun? :heehee:

              Can we do this again at the summer solstice? The figures up here will look so much better. ;)
               
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                So I'm looking at this and it appears I have to wait until 15th of Feb before the sun reaches the same strength here as it is in Algarve today.:scratch::biggrin:
                 
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                  We should do, could even be interesting at the equinox.

                  Beauly, I thought there was a motor museum there.:biggrin:
                   
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                    Wrong Beauly and spelt differently. :biggrin:
                     
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                      My photography app gives today's max elevation of the sun as 14.7 Deg at 12.26 GMT

                      View attachment 151333 [/QUOTE]
                      Just noticed, you have noon at 12.26pm.
                      My site says 11.56am.
                      ????????????
                       
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                      I thought it might be.:blue thumb:
                      But I shall remember that.
                       
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                        Just noticed, you have noon at 12.26pm.
                        My site says 11.56am.
                        ????????????[/QUOTE]

                        It's at 12:16 pm as time stamped. The sun doesn't rise higher than 14.7 deg, and is at that elevation between 11:46 and 12:16. I took the screenshot showing at 12:16 to show the sun rises no higher than 14.7 deg.

                        EDIT: 14.7 Deg elevation does not necessarily mean it's not changing for 30 mins, as it could be anything between 14.650 and 14.749 and rounded to 1 decimal place.
                         
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                          It's amazing what you talk about when you can't get out into the garden to work! :roflol:

                          Most of my friends are only interested in whether the sun rises over the yardarm! :ccheers: :loll: (For you youngsters, it's a nautical expression :thumbsup:)
                           
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                            it's not naughty at all.
                             
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                              I'm in an armchair at an elevation of 45 degrees waiting for the rain to stop.
                               
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