Where do the direct rays of the sun strike earth when the sun is at it lowest point in your sky?

Answer 1

Summer Solstice in the northern Hemisphere.

Answer 2

12:00 pm It depends on how you are measuring time. Time zones are a little over 1000 miles wide at the equator. So when it turns 12 noon at the equator, the sun clearly cannot be at its highest elevation for every spot along a stretch of 1000 miles at the same instant. However, by definition, the sun is at its highest (it transits the meridian) each day at solar noon. Solar time is strictly local and is independent of the time zones. The interesting thing is that solar noon will not be at precisely the same Universal Time every day for a given location. Solar time and Universal Time don't overlap perfectly. Their relationship is explained in something called the Equation of Time. Another interesting phenomenon resulting from the offset between solar time and Universal Time is called the analemma. Check the links for more information.

Answer 3

For those living in the Northern Hemisphere the sun's direct rays would be falling on the Tropic of Capricorn when the sun is at the lowest point in your sky. For those in the Southern Hemisphere it would be on the Tropic of Cancer.

Answer 4

It's called "night". If you mean, what does the clock say, that varies between different locations, and depending on the time of year. But on average, it is something like between 6 p.m., and 6 a.m.

Answer 5

The phrase "high noon" came about because, using a clock based on the Sun, the Sun is highest in the sky at noon. In navigation, sailors use the "local apparent noon" observation of the Sun to fix their position quite accurately with a single observation.

Since the railroads came along and established uniform "time zones", this hasn't been entirely correct. So during the winter, the Sun might be at its highest elevation anytime between 11:30 AM and 12:30 PM according to your watch. In the summer, with daylight savings time, it could be somewhere between 12:30 PM and 1:30 PM.

Answer 6

We used to call this "Noon", until the railroads divided the country up into time zones so that all of the stationmasters could have their watches say the same thing no matter where they were. Now "Noon" is a reading on your watch, which has little to do with the actual position of the Sun in the sky.

Sailors use the term "Local Apparent Noon" to refer to the time when the Sun is as high as it gets in the sky.

Answer 7

For anyone in the northern Hemisphere, the sun is lowest in the sky on December 21.

For anyone in the southern Hemisphere, the sun is lowest in the sky on June 21.

For anyone on the Equator, the sun is lowest in the sky on both of those occasions.

(Of course, we're talking about its altitude at Noon, not at sunrise and sunset.)

Answer 8

It's called "night". If you mean, what does the clock say, that varies between different locations, and depending on the time of year. But on average, it is something like between 6 p.m., and 6 a.m.

It's called "night". If you mean, what does the clock say, that varies between different locations, and depending on the time of year. But on average, it is something like between 6 p.m., and 6 a.m.

It's called "night". If you mean, what does the clock say, that varies between different locations, and depending on the time of year. But on average, it is something like between 6 p.m., and 6 a.m.

It's called "night". If you mean, what does the clock say, that varies between different locations, and depending on the time of year. But on average, it is something like between 6 p.m., and 6 a.m.

Answer 9

The direct rays of the sun will strike the Tropic of Capricorn when the sun is at its lowest point in the sky. This occurs during the December solstice in the Southern Hemisphere.

Answer 10

The answer is winter. The season thats the sun highest in the sky is SUMMER