Saturday, December 15, 2012

Tracking the Sun Across the Macon Sky

 My goal was to track the sun across the sky and record its angle from Macon.  I determined grid north by using Google Earth to find an image of my apartment.  Then I identified two reference points in my yard that lined up with north. I used them to paint a diagram of the cardinal directions on my driveway.  I discerned the angle to the sun by eye, transferred the angle to the diagram with chalk and measured it with a protractor.  Below is a shot of the diagram I drew in my driveway.


  I gathered the information on temperature and conditions for each observation from The National Weather Service website.  Below is a chart showing that data.










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