/ SOLSTICE SUMMER 2020

The Day is longer / The night is shorter

How to find the altitude of the noon sun if the date is not the eDescribes how to complete diagram 2 on the activity. Equinox. (Step one - find the difference in latitude between your location and the vertical ray. Step two - subtract that difference from 90 to find the angle of the noon sun at your location (90 - difference in latitude from VR = noon sun altitude)).

 

Summer Solstice Diagram

Summer Solstice Diagram

Summer Solstice Diagram

 

 

"Since the Sun rays are coming from this side, the terminator is perpendicular to the Sun's rays and I am going to simply shade this in and that is the part of the Earth that is in darkness. So everything over here on this side will be experiencing night time"

 

 

Summer Solstice Diagram

Summer Solstice Diagram