[time-nuts] Determination of the placement of the first pps
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Mon Jan 23 19:39:07 UTC 2012
> Not to mention the solar noon varies by +/- 15min over the year (don't ask
> me how this is called...old knowledge from my high school days)
Analemma: It's the figure 8 you see on globes in the middle of the Pacific
Ocean.
It's caused by the Earth's orbit not being circular and the axis of rotation
not being perpendicular to the orbit plane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma
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