Chris wrote: <snip> ....there is a point at the pole at which the height of the sun does not vary during the day...<snip>
Ah. I looked at my globe again and I see where my visualization was wrong. My revised thinking is that actually the sun's height does vary during every day due to declination. During the spring the it climbs continuously throughout the day every day and in the summer it descends continuously all day every day. Only on the day of the summer solstice does it switch over from climbing to descending. In other words, the instant of solstice could define your noon... but you also need to hold a leap party every year to loose the extra 6 hours. Want to come? Bring a bottle. Steve -
