[lace-chat] Direction of the sun
Clay wrote: >Yes, Jean - but the same hold true in the Northern > Hemisphere! If you stand looking south, the sun will rise > on your left and set on your right. If you look north, the > opposite holds true. Same as in Oz - correct?> Not correct. This time of year, if I look north I won't see the sun because it's so low on the southern horizon. It's even lower in the north of the country. I can only see it of I look south. In the mornings when most people are driving to work, it causes all sorts of problems because it's straight ahead of you and quite blinding if you're driving in the appropriate direction. In winter I hated one job I had because I was driving with the sun coming in at eye level through one of the car windows both going to work (easterly) and coming home (westerly). Even in the height of summer, if I look north, it's still behind my head for most of the day. My sundial wouldn't work if it wasn't, which, before anyone comments, has the correct angle for the gnomon for our latitude and is adjusted twice a year for British Summer Time. My peripheral vision is good enough so I could see the sun for a while on my right after sunrise and on my left before sunset, but only see my shadow for most of the day. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Direction of the sun
Yes, Jean - but the same hold true in the Northern > Hemisphere! If you stand looking south, the sun will rise > on your left and set on your right. If you look north, the > opposite holds true. Same as in Oz - correct? > > Clay You are correct, Clay. It all depends which way you are facing - towards the equator, or towards the Pole. I get confused when I visit Denver - the mountains are on the "wrong" side - I live to the east of Melbourne, and we have some hills (I dare not call them mountains, after visiting the Rockies!!!) just 20 minutes drive from here - further out to the East. - and 'That' is where I expect my hills to be - not like in Denver, where they are to the west!! Our hills are our "marker" when we come home from a long trip - when we can see the Dandenongs, we know we are nearly home! from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Direction of the sun
Noelene, That was me. (I?) I wrote a short play for my philosophy class using Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig as debaters over whether the earth was flat. You may be pleased to know that I got an A+ on it! If any one is interested I could send you a copy. (Although why you would want to see my schoolwork, is beyond me.) Heather Abbotsford, BC Where I now have to reconstruct an argument by Thursday. At 09:09 AM 12/11/2003 +1100, W & N Lafferty wrote: Hey, didn't someone here write a piece on "The Earth is Flat" recently? Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Direction of the sun
I don't know, Noelene, but I can sense that there's a lacemaker's vision of the earth, moon and stars just itching to be born as a poem in you!! ;) Clay > Hey, didn't someone here write a piece on "The Earth is Flat" recently? > > Noelene in Cooma To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Direction of the sun
Hey, didn't someone here write a piece on "The Earth is Flat" recently? Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ From: "Clay Blackwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Yes, Jean - but the same hold true in the Northern > Hemisphere! If you stand looking south, the sun will rise > on your left and set on your right. If you look north, the > opposite holds true. Same as in Oz - correct? > > Clay > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Direction of the sun
Yes, Jean - but the same hold true in the Northern Hemisphere! If you stand looking south, the sun will rise on your left and set on your right. If you look north, the opposite holds true. Same as in Oz - correct? Clay - Original Message - From: "Jean Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 1:15 PM Subject: [lace-chat] Direction of the sun > Linda wrote: > > <"The Sun still rises in the East and sets in the West in the Southern > hemisphere, it is that it is in the North, not the South that seem to > confuse people.> > > If I stand and watch the sun in the southern sky rising in the east and > setting in the west, I see it pass from my left to my right. If I have to > turn round the look at it in the north I will see it passing from my right > to my left even though it's still passing from east to west. > > Jean in Poole > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Direction of the sun
Linda wrote: <"The Sun still rises in the East and sets in the West in the Southern hemisphere, it is that it is in the North, not the South that seem to confuse people.> If I stand and watch the sun in the southern sky rising in the east and setting in the west, I see it pass from my left to my right. If I have to turn round the look at it in the north I will see it passing from my right to my left even though it's still passing from east to west. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
