The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice

Re:The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice by franze on Monday December 22, 2025 @05:44AM (#46353029)

and yes, the maths fails when you are super super high north or south

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Re:The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice by srean on Monday December 22, 2025 @06:23AM (#46353273)

Hey! nice little useful web page. I like the minimalism of it.

Does the math fail because of not considering (i) equation of time and (ii) oblateness of the Earth ?

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Re:The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice by franze on Monday December 22, 2025 @01:12PM (#46356825)

because mathematically a day can have more than 24h daylight and less than 0

fixed it

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Re:The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice by srean on Monday December 22, 2025 @02:23PM (#46357786)

Got it. Will happen whenever the latitude is complement of the declination.

Thanks for replying.

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Re:The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice by JKCalhoun on Monday December 22, 2025 @08:38AM (#46354007)

You should try to address the latitude issue. (Says the guy who has only to spend a few seconds typing that.)

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Re:The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice by franze on Monday December 22, 2025 @01:13PM (#46356849)

done

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