Local noon is the time when the sun is exactly to the south in the Northern Hemisphere, exactly to the north in the Southern Hemisphere and exactly overhead on the equator. It changes one minute for every 15 minutes of longitude you travel.
local noon (not noon according to the clock)
As viewed from the continental US local noon is defined as the moment when the Sun is positioned directly on the meridian, an imaginary line that crosses the sky from directly north to directly south.
The star w´ll cross first by about 3 minutes 56 seconds.
Yes the point on the other side of the globe of the Earth to you is experiencing its local midnight.
noon
That's the definition of local noon, everywhere. In "standard" time zones, near the middle.
local noon (not noon according to the clock)
local noon (not noon according to the clock)
Post meridian means after noon.
It cannot according to the definition of "noon", but it can in some of the crazy time zones that some countries have.
It's the literal definition. The abbreviation a.m. stands for ante meridiem, which is Latin for "before noon."
overhead
Local noon
Noon, because the sun is directly overhead.
No, because of the difference between their longitudes, mean local noon at Buffalo (12:16 PM EST) is about 20½ minutes after mean local noon at Albany (11:55 AM EST).
Local apparent noon occurs at 12:13:36 local time at 123 degrees, 24 minutes W.
11:37 if my math is correct :)