Matthew Strait. Wait, too clear, I mean — Aaaahhh! ([personal profile] quadong) wrote in [personal profile] lydy 2020-12-07 05:35 pm (UTC)

Alas, it's a lie to children!

It only rises exactly in the east and sets exactly in the west on the equinoxes. For you today, it rises approximately southeast by east, except that in a city, you probably can't see it until it is 10 degrees above the horizon, by which point it is (today) southeast of you.

In Mpls, being a bit norther than Cleveland, the Sun is even somewhat more south than that, but only a few degrees, so the compass points are the same.

In Anchorage, today the Sun rises southeast by south. By the time the Sun is 5 degrees over the horizon, it's south by east, and it only ever gets 6 degrees up.

I like the names of compass points. :-) I don't have them memorized though, but have to look up the list on Wikipedia.

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