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Lesson 1 of 15

The sun’s path: rising, noon and setting

35 min

It is a June evening on a fell in the Lake District. Your phone is flat, your compass is in the car, and you know the road you want is somewhere to the west. The sun is going down ahead of you, so you walk towards it. An hour later you are on the wrong side of the ridge, looking down into a valley you have never seen. Nothing went…

In this lesson

  • The sky as a dome
  • Where the sun rises and sets through the year
  • The equinoxes: the only time the rhyme is true
  • Midsummer and midwinter in Britain
  • Why latitude matters
  • The southern hemisphere mirrors it
  • Hills move the sunrise
  • How to use sunrise and sunset
  • The sun at local noon
  • How high is the noon sun?
  • Noon is not 12:00
  • How the sun moves through the day

The rest of this lesson is in the full course

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