On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Willy Leenders wrote:

> The spring equinox was about at 3-20-2002 18:50 UT
> Midsummer is about at  6-21-2002 13:10 UT
> The autumn equinox is about at 9-23-2002 04:40 UT
> The difference between the time from spring equinox to midsummer on one
> hand and the time from midsummer to autumn equinox on the other hand is
> about 21:10 hours.
>
> One should suppose there will be no difference in time between the
> positions of the sun at declination 23.44? to 0? and between the
> positions at declination 0? and -23.44?.
>
> Can anyone give me an explication of this difference?
>
 Willy Leenders,

you found experimentally that seasons have not the same lenght!! You found
also Equation-of-Time. Look at http://www.analemma.com/

My best regards

Piero Ranfagni

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