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rgormley

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sun arc /track acrross the sky
« on: October 20, 2007, 01:12:54 PM »
hi

is there a diagram that shows the suns arc over melbourne (australia) one that show it`s arc during the whole year?


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Re: sun arc /track acrross the sky
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2007, 08:11:25 AM »
Try....

http://www.sustainability.vic.gov.au/www/html/2114-solar.asp

I googled solar radiation victoria, Ok rocket sience.


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Re: sun arc /track acrross the sky
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2007, 11:33:14 AM »
Or this one:


http://solardat.uoregon.edu/SunChartProgram.html


It's the one I use; puts out nice .pdf files too.


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Re: sun arc /track acrross the sky
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2007, 03:35:14 AM »
not sure why you need to know ,but this might be useful anyway.

http://www.anotherurl.com/therm/sol_calc.htm


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Re: sun arc /track acrross the sky
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2007, 03:39:58 AM »
opps, need to use it from the site.

www.anotherurl.com

its under solar from the front page


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Re: sun arc /track acrross the sky
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2007, 03:23:44 PM »
Thanks Dinges,

 That's really handy!

Regards,

BrianH
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rgormley

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Re: sun arc /track acrross the sky
« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2007, 06:16:49 AM »
found a link to the chart that i`m looking for

it shows the sun tracking accross the sky...


http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/planetarium/solarsystem/sunpath.html

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Re: sun arc /track acrross the sky
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2007, 08:22:10 AM »
I use the Stellarium app for my Mac in which it is easy to see the tracking of the sun (or anything else!) from your location...


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