Talk:Sun path

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Which categories?

Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Should this be included in the Sun category? HarryAlffa (talk) 12:35, 6 October 2009 (UTC)Reply

Tilt of earth: noon shadows

Latest comment: 14 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

North of the equator, the sun will appear in the south at noon, so a vertical stick's shadow will point north at noon. The shadow at any one place in the northern hemisphere will be shortest at the summer solstice, June 21, when the noon sun is higher in the sky than any other time during the year. The equator is the only place where the sun is directly overhead, and that happens only on certain days of the year. Therefore the vertical stick will always cast a shadow north of the equator, even at an equinox.

Sources for this information (Are any suitable for citation?): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=risM55KG2h8 http://solar.physics.montana.edu/ypop/Classroom/Lessons/Sundials/sunpath.html http://astro.unl.edu/naap/motion3/animations/sunmotions.swf http://www.universetoday.com/18704/path-of-the-sun/ http://nstacommunities.org/blog/2008/04/19/simulation-of-the-suns-annual-path-in-the-sky/ http://www.ncsu.edu/kenanfellows/kfp-cp-sites/earth-sun-moon/index-4768.php.html

This is my first post; help and suggestions welcomed. Thanks.

LikesBees (talk) 17:14, 7 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

rambling and not on subject

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This article needs complete structural revision. There is an absurd amount of repetition and clutter about passive solar building design which already has its own separate page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_solar_building_design This page barely touches on the sun's apparent path other than stating the altitude at noon and azimuth at sunrise and sunset, and to generically say it follows an arc without properly defining the shape of the arc from the observers position. The information is also fixed to the specific current tilt of earth's axis to the ecliptic and makes no mention of atmospheric refraction. (there is no reason to restrict the discussion of the sun's path to earth let alone it's specific current tilt) 73.193.32.170 (talk) 15:53, 30 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Unnecessary Citation Request

Latest comment: 3 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

In the section “Effect of the Earth's axial tilt” The statement, “Sun paths at any latitude and any time of the year can be determined from basic geometry,” has a citation followed by a request for a more reliable source. I sort of think this claim is trivial enough that it doesn’t even need a source. I’m not really a math guy, but I think high school geometry is enough to understand the explanation. To that end, perhaps the statement is redundant, but it is a reasonable transition.

I don’t have much Wikipedia editing experience, so perhaps I’m wrong. Maybe it’s too subjective or a value judgement. But I’m thinking if an article said something like “one only needs a rudimentary grasp of English grammar to understand the syntactical structure of the clause ‘the cat sat on the mat’,” we probably wouldn’t need a citation to back it up. P0$t(m0dem)15t (talk) 15:58, 17 May 2025 (UTC)Reply