And, the farther north you go the more daylight you get. SSP's location at
Shingletown will get a longer day on that near Summer Solstice date than in
the Bay Area.
Peter Natscher
Monterey
> From: Mark Wagner <mgw@No-Spam>
> Reply-To: The Astronomy Connection <sf-bay-tac@No-Spam>
> Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:22:41 -0700
> To: tac <sf-bay-tac@No-Spam>
> Subject: [TAC] SSP sun times - it figures!
>
>
>
> I was watching the TV news last night, Steve Raleigh on KRON doing the
> weather. He referred to our "springing ahead" showing various
> sunrise-sunset times for the year, and there was an obvious "jump" forward
> for daylight savings. He mentioned June 26 as having either the latest
> sunset or longest daylight of the year - I forget which - but I then
> realized we are holding SSP during what amounts to the shortest night of
> the year! Who's idea was that?!!!
>
> Now, I always thought the summer solstice was the longest daylight day of
> the year - falling on June 21 (12:10 PM PDT), so I'm not really sure what I
> heard on the news last night. For a brief minute I thought we should have
> some sort of Druid celebration, erecting a mini-Stonehenge at the star
> party, but the local folks would probably conclude we were even more odd
> than we might already seem (shoot, maybe not... they have Mt. Shasta just
> up the road!) .
> Then I realized, it is not when the dark comes that makes a difference to
> me, it is dawn that I abhor, and that's a constant. Dawn is truly an
> unwelcome astronomical intrusion.
>
> I've said it before.... dawn... what a lame idea.
>
> I can't wait for SSP!
>
> Mark
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>