[FRIAM] the Analemma

[Robert Holmes]

As I mentioned, this is the phenomenon that an old colleague of mine would
(vainly) attempt to teach me at this time every year. Fortunately we've now
got wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma>, which helps me feel
marginally less ignorant.

—R

On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 12:33 AM Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> This came up after the service at the mother church, today.
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> http://www.analemma.com/pages/framespage.html
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> Being a late riser, and a darkness hater, I regard December 7 (the day
> after St. Nicholas’s Day, by the way) as the first sign of spring, *because
> it is the day that the afternoons start getting longer.  *The shortest
> morning, by the way, appears to occur on January 7, One of 3 days in the
> year when the sun is at the Zenith at noon.  In other words, noon is moving
> away from sunset faster that the setting sun is moving toward the horizon
> so the sun starts arriving later on the clock.  Or something like that.
> The way I put it implies two standards of time measurement and I cannot
> think what the second one is.
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> I would love to have this explained to me in Defrocked English Major
> Talk.  Also, we have at least one Friammer in the southern hemisphere.  Is
> the same true there, Russ?
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> Nick
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