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  2. Winter solstice - Wikipedia

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    This is often done by observing sunrise and sunset or using an astronomically aligned instrument that allows a ray of light to be cast on a certain point around that time. The earliest sunset and latest sunrise dates differ from winter solstice, however, and these depend on latitude, due to the variation in the solar day throughout the year ...

  3. Lighting-up time - Wikipedia

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    Lighting-up time, sunrise/sunset and twilights at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, United Kingdom; Lighting-up time at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh; D. O'Leary, When to light up: a pocket treatise on the Lights on vehicles act, 1907 containing a full explanation of the act, with a table showing the lighting-up time Published 1908

  4. Sunrise equation - Wikipedia

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    The sunrise equation or sunset equation can be used to derive the time of ... Models in Predicting Sunrise and Sunset Times ... on 11 December 2024, ...

  5. Hello, sunshine! Sunset begins getting later even before the ...

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    No, the winter solstice is not earlier this year. There is a reason sunsets start getting later even before Dec. 21.

  6. December solstice - Wikipedia

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    The December-solstice solar year is the solar year based on the December solstice. It is thus the length of time between adjacent December solstices. The length of the December-solstice year has been relatively stable between 6000 BC and AD 2000, in the range of 49 minutes 30 seconds to 50 minutes in excess of 365 days 5 hours.

  7. Sunset - Wikipedia

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    Calculate the sunset time, which is the solar noon time plus the sunset hour angle in degree divided by 15; Use the sunset time as input to the solar geometry routine to get the solar azimuth angle at sunset. An interesting feature in the figure on the right is apparent hemispheric symmetry in regions where daily sunrise and sunset actually occur.

  8. Twilight - Wikipedia

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    An Excel workbook with VBA functions for twilight (dawn and dusk), sunrise, solar noon, sunset, and solar position (azimuth and elevation) by Greg Pelletier, translated from NOAA's online calculator for sunrise/sunset; Time and Date to find the current state of the sun in a specified place. "Twilight" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ...

  9. Summer solstice - Wikipedia

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    At either pole there is continuous daylight at the time of its summer solstice. The opposite event is the winter solstice. The summer solstice occurs during the hemisphere's summer. In the Northern Hemisphere, this is the June solstice (20, 21 or 22 June) and in the Southern Hemisphere, this is the December solstice (20, 21, 22 or 23 of ...