2006-11-24 04:55:50 · 15 answers · asked by LYNNE J 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Roughly noon.
2006-11-24 04:57:05 · answer #1 · answered by mr_tasty_phlegm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not noon as we usually define it, but LOCAL noon, meaning that the sun has reached it's highest in the sky for the observing location. This usually happens around between about 1 and noon on the clock.
Your shadow is not "nearly nonexistant," and it doesn't matter what time of the year, what season, or whatever--Noon is Noon and Local noon is when the sun is at the highest point that it will reach in the sky that day.
The sun travels a curved path from east to west every day, going from the horizon up into the south, then back down in the West at sunset. When it is directly south of your current location it has reached the highest it will for the day. The actual time you see on your watch will be sometime around noon.
2006-11-24 05:07:32 · answer #2 · answered by ~XenoFluX 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sun appears at it's highest in the sky roughly within 1 hour of noon...but the exact time depends on what season it is and where you on on the earth at the moment it appears highest in the sky from your location. It reaches it's highest point earliest in winter and latest in the summer...hence why winter days are so short and summer days are so long. There are only 2 days each year when the sun is at it's highest at exactly 12 noon...and those are the Autumnal and Vernal Equinoxes...the first day Autumn and the first day of Spring respectively.
Clear Skies!
2006-11-24 07:18:27 · answer #3 · answered by star2_watch 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Noon used ot be defined as the time when the sun was highest in the sky hence the expression "High Noon". Nowadays everywhere is in a standard time zone so noon as reckoned by the clock may be out of step with solar noon by an hour or two.
2006-11-24 05:02:19 · answer #4 · answered by alan P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
During the day when your shadow is nearly non existent. Usually around noon standard time. But not exactly at noon because time zones cover large areas.
2006-11-24 05:08:49 · answer #5 · answered by Tim C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Noon. Or is that some kind of myth. Oh wait ... it is. The sun stays were it is. The earth spins so we get further away from it. I'm not being all smart-arsed and pretending that I just realised that. I just figured it out.
2006-11-24 07:04:19 · answer #6 · answered by Jegis H. Corbet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not always noon. Even when we are on GMT and if you are on the meridian the sun drifts about due to equation of time
2006-11-25 02:46:26 · answer #7 · answered by bwadsp 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12 or 1 depending on dst
2006-11-24 04:57:31 · answer #8 · answered by curious2002 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Noon, that is 1200 local time.
2006-11-24 04:57:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
myself think it´s a 12noon, but not sure , dont get out of bed till 1´0´clock
2006-11-24 05:07:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋