[FRIAM] the Analemma

[Russell Standish]

I can't say I've noticed, but wouldn't it have to do with where your
city is located within your timezone?

On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 12:33:10AM -0700, Nick Thompson 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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