Where is the sun at noon?

Answer 1

At noon, the Sun would cross the meridian, wherever you live.

September is close to an equinox; if you live at the Equator, the Sun would be at the zenith. For every degree further north that you live, the Sun would be a degree south of the zenith. For example, if you live at 50 degrees latitude North, the Sun would be 40 degrees above the horizon (towards the South) i.e., 50 degrees from the zenit.

Answer 2

At noon, the sun is facing south.

Answer:

Before the general acceptance of standard time zones around the world, local noon was defined by the sun being as high in the sky, or directly in the south, as it was going to get that day.

Now that we have standardized time zones and daylight savings time the sun may be off from clock time.

Consider that noon in a time zone starts when the sun is directly overhead at the Eastern edge of the zone. At the same instant, at the Eastern edge of the next time zone, it is 11 am. This means that noon (clock time in the first zone) is 11am (sun time) at that same zone's western boundary. During daylight saving time noon at the eastern boundary of the zone occurs at 11 am sun time and at the western boundary at 10 am.

So it depends on where you are in the time zone as to where the sun is at noon (clock time)

Answer 3

Directly under you. It will only be as wide as you are if the Sun is directly overhead. But except on certain days, in the tropics, a shadow will always extend a bit to the north or south at noon.

Answer 4

At the most basic level the shadow is o the opposite side of the object from the sun. The direction that this is gets a tad complex.

Basically it depends if you're talking "sun" time or "clock" time and where you are on Earth.

With sun time noon is when the sun reaches the highest point in the sky. At that time the shadow will be cast to the north in the northern hemisphere and to the south in the Southern Hemisphere except between the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer when the sun is directly overhead at least one day a year (so the sun is directly below the object) and north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle where the sun does not appear for parts of the year (so there is no sun at noon to cast a shadow) and at the poles where there is no direction but north or south for the south and north poles respectively (meaning the sun's shadow is cast to the north or south all day, not just at noon).

With clock time it gets a bit more complicated. Depending on where you are in a time zone "sun" noon can be an hour or so different from "clock" noon. This means that the sun will be slightly to the west of north in the northern hemisphere and west of south in the southern hemisphere at "clock" noon. All the other caveats for the direction of the sun using "sun" time still apply.

Answer 5

If you stand outside at noon, then the sun should be directly above you. If the sun is directly above you, then your shadow should be directly below you.

Answer 6

I think the shadow is to the left and the sun if to the right.

Answer 7

No. Your shadow is shortest at noon on any given day as that is when the sun is highest in the sky.

Answer 8

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