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Sky Maps: Your Sky, Heavens-above Longitude and Latitude: Martinsville, NJ: LAT: 40° 35' 00 N: LON 74° 32 37 W - EST=UTC-5, EDT=UTC-4 Boston, MA: LAT: 42° 21'24" N LON: 71° 3'24"W Homewood, CA: LAT: 39° 5' N LON: 120° 10' PST=UTC-8, PDT=UTC-7 Clair Tappaan Ldge: LAT: 39° 19' N LON: 120° 22' PST=UTC-8, PDT=UTC-7 Davis, CA: Lat: 38° 33' 17" N Lon: 121° 45' 45" W 2308 E 8th St 38° 33'14.5"N 121°43'22.3"W 38.554028, -121.722857 Declination to magnetic N. 5/25/2020 13.41 E Sun position, bearing, compass, the angle, location, azmiuth (height above horizon) Bearing Jun 20 59° 301°
Astronomical dawn is the time at which the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon in the morning. Astronomical dawn is that point in time at which the sun starts lightening the sky. Prior to this time, the sky is completely dark. Nautical dawn is the time at which the sun is 12 degrees below the horizon in the morning. Nautical dawn is defined as that time at which there is just enough sunlight for objects to be distinguishable. Sometimes known as "frist light".
Twilight is the time between the above.
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Length of twilight (Time between Civil Dawn and Sunrise) at:
Hawaii does not observe daylight savings. Sunrise, Sunset, twilight, dusk and dawn times at: U.S. Naval Observatory (usno.navy.mil), TimeAndDate.com/worldclock/sunrise.html,
Times above are computed for the Winter Solstice (usually Dec 21 or 22) and Summer Solstice (longest day) June 20 or 21st and Spring Equinox (Mar 20 or 21) and Fall Equinox (Sep. 22 or 23).
The solstice is not the day when the sun rises earliest in the morning nor when it sets latest at night. This varies by location.
For Miami the earliest sunrise (5:41) occurs between June 11-14.
Universal Time (UT) Table (UT is the time in the Greenwich time zone which used to be called Grenwich Mean Time)
Links: Sunrise and sunset times in Davis, June 2020 Return to Don's Home.
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