Definitely darker earlier tonight
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Solstice
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Thanks for the heads up
Posted 8 years ago # -
No worries @neddie-h, good reminder tho to book your work Xmas lunch
Posted 8 years ago # -
Thank goodness, I am really struggling with the early light this year.
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The birds gave really been tweeting about 3a.m. In madly loud and raucous manners
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Posted 8 years ago #
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aye, the nights are fair drawing in...
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@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)
In fact the day is only 22 seconds shorter today than it was on the 21st.https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/edinburgh
My mum still beat me to "the nights are drawing in" status update race that we have on Facebook every year. :)
Posted 8 years ago # -
@LivD yes i was only joking
Posted 8 years ago # -
Solstice gathering. Friends have one most years & it's a signal for rain.
Lovely humid cycle there from Roseburn to Goldenacre along NEPN midst flowering bramble & roses.Sitting in garden with a beer and some spits of rain. Then the thunder, lightening, downpour & move indoors.
Leave at about 9pm. Don't want to go via the NEPN at that time (though the rain should keep the neds away.)
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 & told rims on front wheel are worn down.).Realised, when I returned home drenched, that I could have cycled with ease from Goldenacre to Broughton Street and got tram from York Place.
Posted 8 years ago # -
There was an actual cool breeze flowing between the front and back of the house this morning. Can't wait for autumn.
Posted 8 years ago # -
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.
Posted 8 years ago # -
@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 :)
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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.
Of course a week or so either side of the solstices the weather is all that matters.
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"I can't find a site with the times in seconds"
http://www.ukweathercams.co.uk/sunrise_sunset_times.php?city=60
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For more info than you are ever likely to need on why the sunrise/sunset times are not symmetrical about the solstice,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time
And yes, I now have a song from Fiddler on the Roof in my head.
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@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.
The thing about science is that "it's true even if you don't believe in it."
Posted 8 years ago # -
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.
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.
Posted 8 years ago # -
I find this site very handy for keeping me right about sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset:
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