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Title: How to determine the angle between Sun and Earth?
Post by: oemBiology on Mar 25, 2017
Referring to following image, I would like to know on how to determine the angle between Sun and Earth at this moment.

(http://www.geoastro.de/elevaz/basics/gifs/ekliptik.gif)

Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions




Title: Re: How to determine the angle between Sun and Earth?
Post by: bio_man on Mar 29, 2017
Hi oem7110,

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/41-our-solar-system/the-earth/orbit/87-how-do-you-measure-the-distance-between-earth-and-the-sun-intermediate

This explains it.

(https://biology-forums.com/gallery/27/6_29_03_17_12_33_05.gif) (https://biology-forums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=27382)