Several of the atmospheric measurements must be taken within an hour of solar noon. How do we calculate our local solar noon?
Solar noon is the time during the day when the sun appears to have reached its highest point in the sky. Astronomers refer to this time as local apparent noon. Usually, this is not the same time as “clock noon”. The relationship between clock noon and solar noon depends on your location within your time zone and the time of year. Solar noon always occurs half-way between local sunrise and sunset. Therefore, an easy way to calculate your local solar noon is to find a newspaper from a nearby town that gives the times of sunrise and sunset and to take the average of these. Remember to first convert all your times to 24-hour clock times by adding 12 to any PM times before calculating the average of the sunrise and sunset times. The result is the time of your local solar noon. Here’s how the math is done: Add the two times and divide by two. Remember, however, that doing math with time is a bit tricky because there are 60 minutes to an hour. For example, adding 0:45 and 1:30 equals 2:15 (tw
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