Sentences with phrase «angles of the sun at»

It should guarantee the quality of the photograph — and photographers are aware of things like shade and light and the angle of the sun at certain times of the day, which will make a difference.

Ira and Carol also make innovative use of technology — from plotting sales data to displaying maps to showing angles of the sun at different times of day and year inside homes!

Not exact matches

Whichever hemisphere is currently tilted toward the Sun experiences more hours of sunlight each day, and the sunlight at midday also strikes the ground at an angle nearer the vertical and thus delivers more heat.

The gravitational pull of our sun flung it back out of our solar system at a new angle, never to return again.

«We reimaged it several times at different sun angles to be sure it wasn't just a trick of different illumination conditions,» says Ken Edgett, a member of the research team that made the discovery.

«With a long, intricate dance around the Saturn system, Cassini aims to study the Saturn system from as many angles as possible,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Beyond showing us the beauty of the Ringed Planet, data like these also improve our understanding of the history of the faint rings around Saturn and the way disks around planets form — clues to how our own solar system formed around the sun.»

Earth's orbit is at an angle of 7.2 degrees to the solar equator, suggesting that the young sun may have tipped a bit.

The gravitational pull of our sun adjusted its sharply curved path, flinging it back out of our solar system at a new angle, never to return again.

It works by measuring the angle between the sun and a telescope's line of sight on a celestial object, and then comparing this angle to the angle recorded 6 months later, when Earth is at the opposite side of its orbit.

So we have a picture of parallel rays coming from the sun, striking a lot of raindrops, and then being reflected and refracted back from the drops — but not straight back, rather at an angle of 42 degrees.

The temperature measurement then depend on elevation angle of the sun, on prevailing cloudiness and the wind speed at the time of measurement.

«With MESSENGER, we have now obtained images of the entire planet at high resolution and, crucially, at different angles to the sun that show features Mariner 10 could not in the 1970s,» Steven A. Hauck, II, a professor of planetary sciences at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and the study's co-author, said in a statement.

Planets also have varying degrees of axial tilt; they lie at an angle to the plane of the sun's equator.

Normally, NASA watches for this wild space weather using solar observatories like SOHO and the STEREO mission, a pair of solar - orbiting satellites pointed at the Sun from two different angles.

«We expect each of the KBOs» orbital tilt angle to be at a different orientation, but on average, they will be pointing perpendicular to the plane determined by the sun and the big planets,» she added.

The orbital plane of Nix, Hydra and Charon lies at an angle of 57.5 degrees to the orbital plane of Pluto around the Sun.

Hence, why I might have ended up a serial killer, prone to losing myself in paranoid rage or jealousy, were it not for the influence of my sun, which happens to sit at the perfect angle to serve as a «mitigating factor.»

It's still the only teen - themed / aimed weekly drama that has discussed sexuality from nearly every angle (as Williamson observes on one of the DVDs, the dichotomy of the Dawson - Joey - Pacey - Jen quartet gave them the luxury of taking four unique stands at the start) without becoming salacious, and I can't help but see my washed - up self in Dawson's eagerness to become a filmmaker, from Dawson's home videos in which Joey is attacked by a lagoon creature (as you may surmise from its title, the series is set in a sun - dappled New England inlet) to his Spielberg fixation — although even as a teen, I recognized that 1941 is a better film than Hook.

You have to perfectly balance the spooling up of the turbo with the engagement of the clutch with the angle of the sun on the moon with... Some launches will be better than others, assuming you arrive at just the right intersection of power and grip to maximize acceleration.

You've heard of SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder, it's «seasonal» only because the days are shorter and the sun's rays are at a different angle and less intense in winter.

Bask in the luxury of space within every beach - facing accommodation at The Legian Bali, whether you choose a duo of sea - facing sun decks, a dining room angled to the Indian Ocean, a beachfront sanctuary by the sand, or multiple bedrooms to share your paradise with family and friends.

Over time, the sun bleached away the color, leaving behind ghostly impressions, the brightest in the center where the glass of the skylight shone the light of the sun most directly, fading along the sides where it cast in at angles, and dimmest along the edges where the fabric was concealed from the sun's radiation.

From a certain angle, glinting reflections on the powdery gesso dance like sun on snow, and a pattern of blurred «ghost» images of rectangles start to appear the way the white «stars» flicker at the intersections of black lines in a Mondrian.

Even though solar power systems are most efficient when the panels are positioned directly perpendicular to the sun, most conventional rooftop solar arrays are installed at a fixed angle and orientation, which means that as the sun moves across the sky during the day, the panels are only square to the sun for part of the day.

The Army says that the geometry of the solar cells allows them to absorb the same rate of sunlight at any angle, which means that they don't need sophisticated sun tracking systems to generate the maximum amount of energy.

I'm still waiting for companies to start building chargers / batteries with a low - power LCD screen that can show the exact state of charge to users, as well as possibly showing how optimal the solar panel is operating at any given moment (so the angle to the sun can be adjusted or the panels cleaned or possibly to find out if the unit is operating within specs).

When the sun's rays come in at lower angles, the spreading and tilting of the cells ups the amount of sunlight being captured and turned into electricity.

3 months at most and the suns penetration has to go through vast amount of atmosphere through the angle of solar penetration.

On a seasonal scale, the solar elevation angle also correlates with the number of daylight hours, which reduces the amount of solar energy received over the course of a day at times of the year when the sun is already lower in the sky.

This house was designed as a passive solar home by architects at Solar Northern; designers of Post And Beam Homes who eventually became Woodhouse.The house is built on styrofoam insulated foundation walls and concrete floor which serves as a thermal flywheel to hold heat from the sun in heating months before and after winter solstice and moderate summer temps in house when the sun is not shining in the house due to summer sun angles.

Earth rotates once every 24 hours around an axis that is tilted at an angle of 23 ° 30 ′ with respect to the plane of its orbit around the Sun.

Of course at that high a latitude, it has to be interpreted in light of the higher degree of tilt of the Earth's axis which in the early Holocene would mean a higher sun angle for the NortOf course at that high a latitude, it has to be interpreted in light of the higher degree of tilt of the Earth's axis which in the early Holocene would mean a higher sun angle for the Nortof the higher degree of tilt of the Earth's axis which in the early Holocene would mean a higher sun angle for the Nortof tilt of the Earth's axis which in the early Holocene would mean a higher sun angle for the Nortof the Earth's axis which in the early Holocene would mean a higher sun angle for the North.

But exactly the same amoutn of LWIR energy in that 1/2 degree cone angle, also falls on the sun which is at 6000 K or so, and it passes through out layers of the sun, which are at million degree temperatures.

First, the air in the earth's atmosphere is warmest around the equator (because the sun reaches the earth at a direct 90 ° angle) so that warmer air rises and flows north and south of the equator.

At the summer solstice, the Northern Hemisphere receives the most energy (highest intensity) from the Sun due to the angle of sunlight and day length.

Of course when the sun hits at an oblique angle the number of watts per square metre of surface is lower (proportional in fact to 1 / sin (A) where A is the elevation above the horizon.Of course when the sun hits at an oblique angle the number of watts per square metre of surface is lower (proportional in fact to 1 / sin (A) where A is the elevation above the horizon.of watts per square metre of surface is lower (proportional in fact to 1 / sin (A) where A is the elevation above the horizon.of surface is lower (proportional in fact to 1 / sin (A) where A is the elevation above the horizon.).

However, the effect of waves depends on the wind, and the net result fro measured results for clear days very closely approximates the reflection of P polarized light from smooth water at high sun angles: the «classic» water albedo of 0.06 is a good approximation between 90 degrees and 25 degrees solar angles.

At all other times of the day, the air mass is calculated based on the incident angle of the sun — the angle of the sun above the horizon.

At solar angles below 10 degrees angle of incidence, each square meter of newly melted Arctic Sea Ice loses several times more energy by evaporation than it gains by absorption of the sun's energy.

That's a pretty silly claim on Dr. Curry's part if you consider that in the months the arctic sea ice isn't diminished, there's never really so much sunlight as you'd count it against the average, so whatever albedo changes there are during the half of the year that matters, they're when the sun is at its highest angle.

Thus, at 80 north near the edge of the sea ice, the sun is only at 10 degrees incidence angle at noon.

Except now it is called the Walkie - Scorchie, as the sun drops lower in the sky and hits the building at such an angle that it is reflected into the street below, cooking cars and a lot of journalists» eggs.

The wobble in the earth's axis, as I was taught, it takes about 25,000 years to complete one full cycle; wherein the angle of the earth in relationship to the sun is not the same at the exact same point in time year after year.

A solar fabric would be lightweight, foldable, portable, wearable and capable of capturing more of the sun's energy because it would be collecting sunlight from many different angles at once as opposed to a flat, stationary panel.

It then shows a scene (early morning from my reading of shadows and sun angles) in which recognizable first floor victims were placed on the street outside the building: at 0:24, one can see the boy with arm - stripes from the washing machine room, the baby in purple sweater, the two babies in white, the boy in red - white striped shirt, the boy in green - blue stripes and the boy in a grey sweater with red - white front stripes (the girl in red not having arrived to give him his last hug) etc..

The sun's strength is only 1368W / m ^ 2 at the equator at noon, everywhere else it is less because of the angle.

At sunrise, the sun's angle is 0 degrees, at noon 90 degrees, at sunset 0 degrees again, so the amount of radiation the equator is getting is 1368 watts / meter ^ 2 cos x. Integrate that cos x from sunrise, pi / 2, to sunset, - pi / 2, and you get 2 / pi for the average radiatioAt sunrise, the sun's angle is 0 degrees, at noon 90 degrees, at sunset 0 degrees again, so the amount of radiation the equator is getting is 1368 watts / meter ^ 2 cos x. Integrate that cos x from sunrise, pi / 2, to sunset, - pi / 2, and you get 2 / pi for the average radiatioat noon 90 degrees, at sunset 0 degrees again, so the amount of radiation the equator is getting is 1368 watts / meter ^ 2 cos x. Integrate that cos x from sunrise, pi / 2, to sunset, - pi / 2, and you get 2 / pi for the average radiatioat sunset 0 degrees again, so the amount of radiation the equator is getting is 1368 watts / meter ^ 2 cos x. Integrate that cos x from sunrise, pi / 2, to sunset, - pi / 2, and you get 2 / pi for the average radiation.

All of us have experienced this at some point while behind the wheel of a car — the sun is rising, or setting, and its angle in relation to your car means that the sun is shining directly into your eyes.

This pendant is designed digitally to accurately represent the sun angle at that moment, and then 3d - printed with an engraving of the location coordinates.

Enjoy all the details and angles of this perfectly lovely sunny room by Kim of Savvy Southern Style over at her Sun Room Tour!