http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Solstice en Tue, 19 May 2026 15:12:09 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253668 Sun, 25 Jun 2017 23:33:19 +0000 crowriver 253668@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I find this site very handy for keeping me right about sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset:</p> <p><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/edinburgh" rel="nofollow">https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/edinburgh</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253664 Sun, 25 Jun 2017 22:49:28 +0000 wee folding bike 253664@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Even though it was a bit of a washout in Scotland I'd been looking forward to the August '99 eclipse since I read about it in a Patrick Moore book in the '70s.</p> <p>And yes, we worked out lots of stuff a long time ago, speed of light, weight of the planet etc. I'm still amazed by people being able to work out sound frequency hundreds of years ago. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253621 Sun, 25 Jun 2017 11:06:49 +0000 Greenroofer 253621@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wfb I am in awe of the astronomers 300 years ago who worked all this out without any help from calculators or computers. In the same way, I get a little jolt of pleasure from the power and beauty of maths when they predict the exact time and location of eclipses and the like.</p> <p>The thing about science is that "it's true even if you don't believe in it." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253612 Sun, 25 Jun 2017 08:48:08 +0000 wee folding bike 253612@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>For more info than you are ever likely to need on why the sunrise/sunset times are not symmetrical about the solstice, </p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time</a></p> <p>And yes, I now have a song from Fiddler on the Roof in my head. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253582 Sat, 24 Jun 2017 14:46:30 +0000 chdot 253582@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I can't find a site with the times in seconds"</p> <p><a href="http://www.ukweathercams.co.uk/sunrise_sunset_times.php?city=60" rel="nofollow">http://www.ukweathercams.co.uk/sunrise_sunset_times.php?city=60</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253580 Sat, 24 Jun 2017 14:22:38 +0000 acsimpson 253580@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I can't find a site with the times in seconds, but if I understand correctly the times roughly follow a sine curve. The latest/earliest will therefore fall roughly in the middle of the days with the same time.</p> <p>Of course a week or so either side of the solstices the weather is all that matters. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253546 Fri, 23 Jun 2017 21:46:10 +0000 LivM 253546@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@acsimpson eh? Sunrise 04:26 consistently for more than a week according to what I can see. It is 1 minute later tomorrow morning though. Unless you're joking too. I don't get the nuances of forum jokes :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253535 Fri, 23 Jun 2017 16:00:06 +0000 acsimpson 253535@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>LivD, I'm sure it hasn't missed your attention that the mornings have been getting darker for the best part of a week already. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253524 Fri, 23 Jun 2017 14:20:56 +0000 wingpig 253524@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There was an actual cool breeze flowing between the front and back of the house this morning. Can't wait for autumn. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253520 Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:31:19 +0000 Rosie 253520@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Solstice gathering. Friends have one most years &amp; it's a signal for rain.<br /> Lovely humid cycle there from Roseburn to Goldenacre along NEPN midst flowering bramble &amp; roses.</p> <p>Sitting in garden with a beer and some spits of rain. Then the thunder, lightening, downpour &amp; move indoors.</p> <p>Leave at about 9pm. Don't want to go via the NEPN at that time (though the rain should keep the neds away.)<br /> Choose a route via Rocheid Path - dark, wet, scary. Then push up Gloucester Lane to Queen Street. Fairly horrible cycle in wet as brakes dodgy (replaced now &amp; told rims on front wheel are worn down.).</p> <p>Realised, when I returned home drenched, that I could have cycled with ease from Goldenacre to Broughton Street and got tram from York Place. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253499 Fri, 23 Jun 2017 10:38:54 +0000 gembo 253499@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@LivD yes i was only joking </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253486 Fri, 23 Jun 2017 10:18:51 +0000 LivM 253486@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo, it may feel like that but the sun doesn't actually start setting earlier for a few days yet (30/6), and then it's only 1 min earlier (22:02-22:01)<br /> In fact the day is only 22 seconds shorter today than it was on the 21st.</p> <p><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/edinburgh" rel="nofollow">https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/edinburgh</a></p> <p>My mum still beat me to "the nights are drawing in" status update race that we have on Facebook every year. :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253485 Fri, 23 Jun 2017 10:18:26 +0000 steveo 253485@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>aye, the nights are fair drawing in... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253473 Fri, 23 Jun 2017 07:00:09 +0000 chdot 253473@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tweet</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/dawncansfield/status/877417392934191105" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/dawncansfield/status/877417392934191105</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253470 Fri, 23 Jun 2017 06:52:17 +0000 gembo 253470@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The birds gave really been tweeting about 3a.m. In madly loud and raucous manners </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253469 Fri, 23 Jun 2017 06:15:15 +0000 Nelly 253469@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thank goodness, I am really struggling with the early light this year. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253464 Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:26:52 +0000 gembo 253464@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>No worries @neddie-h, good reminder tho to book your work Xmas lunch </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253463 Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:24:29 +0000 neddie 253463@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks for the heads up </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17854#post-253462 Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:15:32 +0000 gembo 253462@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Definitely darker earlier tonight </p>