{"id":28385,"date":"2012-06-20T11:14:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/20\/time-and-relative-sunrises-in-space.html"},"modified":"2012-06-20T11:14:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:14:30","slug":"time-and-relative-sunrises-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/20\/time-and-relative-sunrises-in-space.html","title":{"rendered":"Time and Relative Sunrises in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s Solsticey Goodness!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108952536790629690817'>Philip Plait<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>\u00a0\u00a0#BAFact : The summer solstice is the longest day of the year, but does NOT have the earliest sunrise\/latest sunset!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Today is the summer solstice (as I wrote about here <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2012\/06\/20\/shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-solstice\/\" >http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2012\/06\/20\/shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-solstice\/<\/a> ) which means it&#39;s the longest day of the year. However, oddly, that does <i>not<\/i> mean it has the earliest sunrise and latest sunset! I know, that&#39;s counterintuitive, but it&#39;s because the Earth orbits the Sun on an ellipse. That messes up the speed of the Sun&#39;s motion on the sky, which in turn messes up thee timing of the sunrise and sunset.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The link below from Australia&#39;s ABC network explains how all this works.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Freslib%2F201012%2Fr689405_5177115.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/goo.gl\/QbXee'>Why doesn&#39;t the latest sunset fall on the longest day of the year?<\/a><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/XCcFeQ1Fg6E' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s Solsticey Goodness! Reshared post from +Philip Plait \u00a0\u00a0#BAFact : The summer solstice is the longest day of the year, but does NOT have the earliest sunrise\/latest sunset! Today is the summer solstice (as I wrote about here http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2012\/06\/20\/shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-solstice\/ ) which means it&#39;s the longest day of the year. However, oddly, that does not mean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/20\/time-and-relative-sunrises-in-space.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Time and Relative Sunrises in Space&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-28385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-bafact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30477,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/04\/crepuscular-rays-are-parallel.html","url_meta":{"origin":28385,"position":0},"title":"Crepuscular Rays are Parallel!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Oct-12 10:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"Also, it's fun to say \"Crepuscular Rays.\"Reshared post from +Philip Plait#BAFact: Those rays of light and shadow fanning out from the Sun at sunset? They\u2018re actually parallel!One of the most dramatic sights in the sky is when the Sun sets behind clouds on a hazy day, and incredible rays of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30504,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/07\/when-galaxies-collide.html","url_meta":{"origin":28385,"position":1},"title":"When Galaxies Collide","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Oct-12 11:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Beautiful. Or, if not that, the awesome, in the true meaning of the word.Reshared post from +Philip Plait#BAFact: Galaxies sometimes collide, triggering massive, violent - and beautiful - bursts of star formation.In a dance that takes a billion years to play out, entire galaxies will sometimes collide, their gravitational embrace\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28444,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/30\/asteroid-comet-ufo-space-battle-happy-anniversary-tunguska-event.html","url_meta":{"origin":28385,"position":2},"title":"Asteroid? Comet? UFO space battle? 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Now known as the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31455,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/of-course-they-float-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":28385,"position":3},"title":"Of course they float","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Nov-12 11:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"We always think of clouds as weightless, floating through the air. \u00a0Of course, upon consideration, it makes sense that they'd be incredibly heavy ... just less incredibly heavy than air of the same volume..Reshared post from +Philip Plait#BAFact: Clouds weigh millions of tons, but float due to being less dense\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15638,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/24\/cue-sunrise-sunset.html","url_meta":{"origin":28385,"position":4},"title":"Cue &#8220;Sunrise, Sunset&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Aug-09 10:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Crikey! 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