Well, it's finally the shortest day of the year. Since I hadn't done it
before I knew that I needed to take a picture when the sun was at it's
highest point just to show everyone how low the sun is during this time
of year. By the hand method, the sun was at 5 degrees above the
horizon. (if you stick out your fist at arms length, from the bottom
knuckle to the top is supposed to be ten degrees. Using the "stack"
method, you should have your hand directly above your head after nine of
them, indicating ninety degrees... My hands get pretty close to that.)
before I knew that I needed to take a picture when the sun was at it's
highest point just to show everyone how low the sun is during this time
of year. By the hand method, the sun was at 5 degrees above the
horizon. (if you stick out your fist at arms length, from the bottom
knuckle to the top is supposed to be ten degrees. Using the "stack"
method, you should have your hand directly above your head after nine of
them, indicating ninety degrees... My hands get pretty close to that.)
From looking at this picture it does a pretty decent representation of
what "high noon" looks like. The whole panorama was taken at 12:45pm on
December 20th. The high temp yesterday was about -10 degrees
Fahrenheit, so you can also see all the steam from fireplaces and
furnaces. Also, the sun was almost directly south at this time.
Today the sun rose at 10:58am, and set at 2:40pm, which gave us about 3h
41m of sun... So the highest point the sun reaches should be right in
the middle of those times... I'd say that picture was taken very close
to the highest point.
What's the good news? Tomorrow is 13 seconds longer than today...
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