I just wrote:

> ...You will find that you can make a beam anywhere within a few tens
> of a degree.  (To be precise, 0.5 deg at sunrise and sunset, closer
> to 0.3 deg near noon.)

I got that backwards.  The sun subtends a larger azimuth when it is
higher in the sky, so the beam can be formed to point in any direction
in a range of something like 0.7 degrees near noon (at mid-latitudes).

--Art

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