Odd Shadows
Friday, August 03, 2007
So I was talking a walk a while ago through Salem and I noticed that, as I was walking east along Center St. NE near 25th St at about 8:00 in the evening, I was casting a shadow to the southeast. Now this seemed rather peculiar to me, since, although I was just south of the 45th Parallel (by maybe 3 miles), I was significantly north of the Tropic of Cancer.
The view west from where I was standing. Note that the appears on the right-hand side (northern side) of the street:
So I thought I'd check it out. On both a real globe and Google Earth I rotated the Earth around so that Salem was approximately where it would be at 8:00 PM... but I still didn't see how I could be casting a shadow that far to the southeast. Perhaps I didn't do it entirely correctly, but it seems odd that it would be that noticeable here.
Can anyone explain it to me?
The view west from where I was standing. Note that the appears on the right-hand side (northern side) of the street:
So I thought I'd check it out. On both a real globe and Google Earth I rotated the Earth around so that Salem was approximately where it would be at 8:00 PM... but I still didn't see how I could be casting a shadow that far to the southeast. Perhaps I didn't do it entirely correctly, but it seems odd that it would be that noticeable here.
Can anyone explain it to me?
posted by Burton at 12:14 PM
2 Comments:
Glitch in the Matrix. Nothing to see here, move along.
"Can anyone explain it to me?"
I certainly can't. Cripes, you had me confused at axial tilt.
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