What time is sunset in Fayetteville Arkansas on June 4 2011?

Answer 1

I see that someone (or perhaps, two people with the same IP address) has asked about sunset times for the same day a year apart. There will generally be little or no change in the times of sunrise and sunset for the same location and day in different years. That's why we have leap years; to adjust the calendar to KEEP the calendar synchronized with the movement of the Earth around the Sun.

At most, you would see a 1 or 2 minute difference between a leap year and the following year.

But notice that our civil calendar does NOT keep in step with the movement of the Moon; the moonrise/moonset times are entirely different. Other calendars work differently. For example, the Hebrew calendar only maintains a sort-of close relationship for sunrise and sunset, while it remains fixed with respect to the Moon. The Islamic calendar has NO relationship with the Sun; it is strictly lunar, tied to the Moon.

U.S. Naval Observatory

Astronomical Applications Department

Sun and Moon Data for One Day

The following information is provided for Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas (longitude W94.2, latitude N36.1):

Saturday

4 June 2011 Central Daylight Time

SUN

Begin civil twilight 5:30 a.m.

Sunrise 6:00 a.m.

Sun transit 1:15 p.m.

Sunset 8:30 p.m.

End civil twilight 9:00 p.m.

MOON

Moonset 10:18 p.m. on preceding day

Moonrise 8:31 a.m.

Moon transit 3:49 p.m.

Moonset 11:01 p.m.

Moonrise 9:36 a.m. on following day

Phase of the Moon on 4 June: waxing crescent with 9% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated.

New Moon on 1 June 2011 at 4:02 p.m. Central Daylight Time.