Calculating Noon Sun Angle

[@andreamccray7634]

Thank you so very much for your easy to understand explanation of how to calculate the sun angle at a particular location! You made it so simple!

[@noahfendley5989]

Marcos my man, you are a stress reliever and a life saver. Thank you so much

[@Sweetdesertskies]

Thank you. Your explanation is much easier to understand than the one in my College Course book.

[@Admiral8Q]

Thanks Marcos Luna! After some thinking, I figured it out. It's simple where I live, at 46 degrees. Winter solstice is about 20 and Summer solstice about 70. I was trying to figure it out for installing the angle of my solar panels on the house. I'll probably just go with 45 degrees. Cheers!

[@weareintheendtimes.704]

thank you very much I teach Geography and this has clarified one aspect before I teach this topic tomorrow. I didn't know what to do when the latitude of the place is smaller than the overhead Sun yet in the Same hemisphere, so all you need to do is find the distance in between. thanks so much.

[@havanahaldeman-kayser1848]

Thank you so much! I have an Earth Science test and this was really helpful

[@curtisibarra1600]

Thanks for the insight, This is just what I need to get my head around so I can write a solar tilt program to calculate the proper angle for my RV's solar setup. Going to use a small GPS module, an Arduino Microprocessor and a display...

[@takumi2023]

thanks finally i figured it out it turns out that the internet doesn't even have a good explanation on this topic i was trying to find a simple explanation cheers

[@matmurk8536]

takumi168 that's because there is no good explanation for this topic. So ordinary youtubers have to go out and make videos explaining something that the experts won't even touch. This video still leaves the same questions that were always present. Subsolar and especially sublunar points should not be a thing in the heliocentric model. But if adding some numbers together puts your mind at ease then that's all that really matters.

[@carolynfehr]

Listen, you saved my life with this detailed, well-explained tutorial. Xxx

[@matmurk8536]

Hannah saved your life by reaffirming a lie? Interesting

[@chumbue6537]

@@matmurk8536 Okay flat earther

[@matmurk8536]

@@chumbue6537 you better believe it

[@jayush8480]

Thank you Marcos, I'm better prepared for my test later today

[@KarlBonner1982]

Midday sun angle formula for Northern midlatitudes (23.4-66.6°N): Y = 23.4 sin θ + 90° - L where θ is the seasonal longitude of the sun (0° = March equinox) and L is your latitude.

[@karhukivi]

You can also calculate the number of days since the Winter equinox (Dec 21st) by adding ten days to the day number and use this to generate the declination angle.

[@lauraashleyodom5456]

Thank you! This helped me so much!

[@acaciamoore4534]

thank you so much!!! my professor could not explain this, so that i understood!

[@Big800Boy]

Thank you so much. this was very helpful!!

[@12vLife]

This is valuable! I was working outside on some remote land in central Florida (around 27.2, -81.2) this summer (July, July, August). It was painfully hot, so much so I would have to hide between 11am and 4pm and waited for afternoon rains a just started to work from 4pm to 9pm instead. I need to go back down again in early December. How much better will it be? i know we talk about temperature, but it's not just about temperature is it? The sun hurts.

[@MarioJimenez-pn6ds]

Very well explained!

[@BackpackerCoach]

Is there a way to figure out if the noon sun angle is ever the same angle at two different locations? Like 39.92 and 8.81? Trying to figure out if the sun will ever be the same angle at 8.81 on April 1st to what time of year would 39.92 be same angle? If ever? Sorry I am not a math guy I am a artist guy.

[@kitcanyon658]

I’m not sure what your numbers 39.92 and 8.81 are. Are they different latitude locations?

[@BackpackerCoach]

@@kitcanyon658 Yes, different latitude locations.

[@user-zu7mm8ni8x]

North pole during the winter solstice negative 23 degrees?

[@takumi2023]

yea thats correct because during winter you can't see the sun :D

[@justrocio9293]

thank you so much for your help!

[@brycesmith68]

Thank you! Very helpful.

[@MariuelServega]

Thank you so much

[@KindaTiredd]

Thanks this was very helpful, i was sick so i missed this lesson in school, lol could have done bad on the lab

[@TheWheelchairGuy]

Omg This is So GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

[@TraceyFisher-k8g]

thank you!!!!

[@masteragario3335]

Should we not see the sun at 90 degrees to earth all the time at some point on earth and be able to track it 24 hrs a day and make predictions. If I am missing something here, please illuminate me.

[@sherlockholmes6786]

Yea we can but the thing is that tracking it would not be necessary bcoz we already have predicted the sun's path.

[@crystalblueocean]

Great video, Marcos. Is it possible to find your latitude with just a sextant? No other stars, no almanacs, no other tools, zero info about where you are, just a sextant?

[@max5250]

Sextant without stars is useless, after all, its purpose is to measure elevation of stars. On northern hemisphere, you can find out your latitude by measuring elevation of Polaris (your latitude will be elevation of Polaris plus 0.8 degrees).

[@crystalblueocean]

@@max5250 Hey Max, I really appreciate you responding. I see my mistake, though.... what I meant was can you find lat only with the sun using the sextant and nothing else, no almanacs, etc.

[@max5250]

@@crystalblueocean When you measure elevation of the Sun, it will be different depending on your location on Earth, and time of a year. Without almanac you don't know elevation of the Sun from specific location at specific time, so you can't compare your readings and find your latitude. It is much easier to wait for the night, and find out elevation of Polaris, of course, if you are on northern hemisphere.

[@crystalblueocean]

@@max5250 oh, ok, thanks a million, Max. So Columbus and the boys were sighting at night to get their lat. Makes sense. I was wondering what the purpose was for the 'noon sight' because I'm remembering a scene from 'Master and Commander,' where Russel Crow was training the younger officers to shoot the sun at noon.

[@max5250]

@@crystalblueocean You can find out your latitude also by measuring elevation of the Sun at local noon, but you also have to know exact date of a year, and you still have to use almanac, because elevation of the Sun at noon is equal to your latitude only on two days a year, spring and autumn equinoxes, on all other days you have to add or subtract certain amount of degrees.

[@anilaclarke]

Thank you for this!!!

[@allisonvana559]

Thank you!!!

[@jazla111]

I find it funny how you use the north and south magnetic poles as the Earths spinning axis..lol

[@Farm-wheremoneygrowsontrees]

thank you

[@ChargersCity]

🙏🙏Blessings forever GOD loves y'all too forever tell everyone you know and don't know. Jesus loves y'all too forever. Teach everyone how to see and enjoy their blessings too forever😊

[@kinglimpang8067]

lol ignore that guy who blame u. Just look at his/her name...

[@Jackthesmilingblack]

Eratosthenes (curator of the Great Library at Alexendra) had this sussed in around 240 BC. Before Mother Church ran interference for some 1200 years.

[@bensmith2951]

Tropic of Cancer at solar midnight on the December Solstice is when the sun is 90 degrees below the horizon Tropic of Capricorn at solar midnight on the June Solstice is when the sun is also 90 degrees below the horizon

[@chuckbelliveau1899]

Sorry but your information is wrong it’s not not in there we’re not in Capricorn or cancer you should do it more research before you start putting stuff out completely wrong explaining how this works that you should know how to find out what constellation we’re in right now at high noon on the summer solstice you will have your answer

[@Belizepoppi]

The earth doesn’t tilt 🥱

[@EmersumBiggins]

That’s quite the claim to make with no evidence to support it. Are you claiming that the sun wobbles around in the sky, while speeding up and slowing down?🤔