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Old June 28th 03, 05:36 PM
Francis Marion
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Default 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