On Jul 21, 12:43, "Dickson, Dana A." wrote: } Subject: [Paddlewise] Midnight Sun Navigatio Question > Yesterday I was in a discussion with someone who claimed that in the summer > above the artic circle the sun traverses the northern horizon. I thought it > should be traversing to the south. Can any of the northern Paddlewisers > answer the question? My expectation is that the sun would appear to travel > from east to west, low to the southern horizion at Midnight and high at > Noon. > > Curious minds want to know. Northern horizon is correct. If you can, get ahold of a globe. Or just think really hard about one. Tilt the axis a little, then look at where the sun would be from areas above the arctic circle. You'll see that the north pole passes between points above the arctic circle and the sun. -- Bob Myers InteleNet Communications, Inc. Email: bob_at_InteleNet.net 18101 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 550 Phone: 949-851-8250 x227 Irvine, CA 92612 Fax: 949-851-1088 http://www.intelenet.net/ InteleNet Communications is a subsidiary of FirstWorld Communications, Inc. http://www.firstworld.com/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jul 21 1999 - 10:59:13 PDT
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