Space Calendar - June 27, 2003
Sky&Telescope's "Skygazer's Almanac" says latest sunset June 28th,
earliest
sunrise June 14. I think that's for latitude 40N.
40N lat is correct for those dates.
If I recall correctly, the sunset and sunrise curves are slightly out of
sync mostly because Earth's orbit is slightly elliptical.
I believe the elliptical orbit accounts for most of the offset. I would
imagine that adding the earths tilt into the equation adds something to it
too.
F Marion
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