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FAQ and Sun chart
« on: December 13, 2017, 03:56:06 PM »
I am trying to understand "How do you explain day/night cycles and seasons?" in the FAQ. Can you point me to a sun chart that will allow me to go outside today and verify the position of the sun and moon in Mesa, Arizona based on the model presented? The chart should plot the following for a year at my location:

-Date
-Time
-Distance of sun
-Angle of elevation of sun
-Azimuth of sun (or bearing from north)

Kind of like these charts I have been using on my patio door for gardening. One chart is for standard time, and the other is for solar time.
Civil Engineer (professional mapper)

Thanks to Tom Bishop for his courtesy.

No flat map can predict commercial airline flight times among New York, Paris, Cape Town, & Buenos Aires.

The FAQ Sun animation does not work with sundials. And it has the equinox sun set toward Seattle (well N of NW) at my house in Mesa, AZ.