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This article that I just came across does a nice job at explaining some of the nuances of solar noon https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/solar-noon.html https
by sfilmeyer 2y ago
This article that I just came across does a nice job at explaining some of the nuances of solar noon https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/solar-noon.html https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/solar-noon.html .
The time of year does matter a bit, but the effect is smaller than the effect of timezones. Their equation of time article includes a nice graph of the variations in time of solar noon at Greenwich. https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/equation-of-time.html https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/equation-of-time.html
- Izkata 2y ago> This article that I just came across does a nice job at explaining some of the nuances of solar noon https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/solar-noon.html https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/solar-noon.html . And a related thing, the analemma - the sun's position at the same place on earth at solar noon over the course of a year doesn't resemble an arc, it's a figure-8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma