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EP1 Title: "I Told You Less Martinis And More Cardio."
Chateau d If:
:lol:
Snikers. Yeah, at the equator the day is as close to 12 hrs long as you are ever going to get.
All year long too.
georgiapeach:
You would have thought that I might have remembered from my time in Kenya how FAST it gets dark. :doh:
There is really very little "l'heure bleue"--that "red rubber ball" drops like a rock! Of course, it bounces up pretty fast too!
Chateau d If:
I totally forgot about that effect. When the sun dives down perpendicular to the horizon it takes less time to vanish.
We are used to a long ramp to darkness thanks to the increased tilt of the ecliptic we get from latitude.
georgiapeach:
^^^Heee...what he said!
For me, it just meant that my favorite time of day was gone before I knew it. :-\
apskip:
GEORGIA PEACH and CHATEAU, your deductions about the length of the equator day are right on. However, the reverse is true in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia where the summer days are long. With Ushuaia just shy of 55 degrees south and Punta Arenas at just more than 53 degrees south, you are talking about the equiavent of Akimiski Island in the James Bay outlet of Hudson Bay and Cape Muzon, the southernmost extension of the southeast part of Alaska. I haven't found tables for them yet (and might not), but we are talking less than one month shy of their summer solstice. I would guess it would be about 18 hours of light.
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