Year's latest sunset is tonight
FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:
David Blumberg writes from Baltimore: “While I see that sunset for about 11 days straight is 8:37 p.m., I wondered if you could tell me which actual evening has the latest sunset.”
The latest sunset comes this evening, at 8:37 p.m. EDT for Baltimore. But sunrises have been coming later each day since June 14. On balance, the days stopped getting longer on the 21st, and we’re now losing 3 or 4 seconds of daylight per day. That will accelerate to nearly two minutes a day by July 31.
(SUN PHOTO: Kim Hairston, 2010)
Posted by Frank Roylance at 12:00 AM | Permalink
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Categories: From the Sun's print edition, Sky Notes
Categories: From the Sun's print edition, Sky Notes
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Tonight the ISS will be visilbe at 9:36 PM for 4 minutes. Look to the NNW and the ISS will be moving E with a max elevation of 24 degrees.
NASA Wallops in Virginias is also scheduled to launch a military satalite this evening at @ 8:28. The rocket will be viible along the entire mid Atlantic. You can monitor the launch on the NASA Wallops web site.
Of course in order to see the ISS or the rocket blasting into space the skies will have to be clear.
Posted by: jmpg1956 | June 28, 2011 7:26 AM