Since Kepler's laws of motion dictate that celestial bodies orbit more slowly when farther from the sun, we are now moving at ...

The sun angle (altitude angle), is roughly 75°, meaning if you looked at the horizon and drew a line from the sun to yourself, the measured angle is 75°.

The sun rises at different points on the horizon and takes a different route across the sky every day. On the Fall Equinox, the sun comes up at exactly due east. That was Sept. 23 this season.

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You may have noticed that the sun is in your eyes now if you’re headed home from work in the early evening and you’re traveling west. This is pretty normal this time of year.

However, the sun's peak angle in mid-to-late April is about 61 degrees above the horizon. Peak sun angle in mid-to-late April in Raleigh, NC To put that in perspective, that's the equivalent to ...

The sun’s highest spot in the sky has an angle of 31 degrees now. By the end of March, the sun tops in the sky at an angle of 48 degrees. Imagine the ground at the horizon is zero degrees and ...

Here in Central Texas the sun’s peak altitude at solar noon ranges from 36.3° to 83.2° above the horizon at its highest point. NWS Graphic The lowest point the sun reaches at solar noon (36.3 ...

Solar noon is designated as the time of day when the sun reaches its highest point off the horizon. Because of our location within the Central time zone, solar noon never occurs right at 12 p.m ...

It gets even more interesting when you look at it from the standpoint of the number of degrees the sun is above the horizon. Go back to Dec. 21 and the angle is only 23 degrees. Right now we are ...

On May 2, 2019, the solar angle, or the angle between the horizon and the center of the Sun, is 68 degrees. In Providence, the highest the solar angle gets year-round is 72 degrees, which we ...