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Old June 7th 17, 11:06 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
RichA[_6_]
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Default Polar night and a full moon

On Wednesday, 7 June 2017 16:37:56 UTC-4, Gerald Kelleher wrote:
In a few day the moon phase will be full closest to the June Solstice.

https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/spwebcam.cfm

The quality of imaging from the webcam has been exceptionally poor this year .

Despite the Americans believing otherwise, the June Solstice is actually midsummer as daylight/darkness asymmetries govern the seasons even though heat/cold would seem to make the better claim. It will be polar noon in 2 weeks as the Earth continues to turn as a function of its orbital motion thereby bringing both polar points midway to the circle of illumination and the maximum areas of complete darkness of complete sunrise known as the Antarctic and Arctic circles.


Think they could afford a better camera. What is it, a Panasonic CCTV camera from the early 90's? Lots of noise.