The days will start getting shorter now, we loose about 1 1/2 minutes of daylight per day until Dec 20 +/- .....
I've been tracking this cycle with my family for about three-five years now...
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Thread: Happy summer solstice 2016!!!!
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06-20-2016, 12:09 PM #1Already miss the 310/562
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Happy summer solstice 2016!!!!
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06-20-2016, 01:37 PM #2Senior Member
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Yay winter is coming
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06-20-2016, 06:07 PM #3Senior Member
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Doesn't feel like summer here yet
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06-20-2016, 06:51 PM #4Senior Member
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Pretty cool you're doing that.
Originally Posted by 2manymustangs
The days will start getting shorter now, we loose about 1 1/2 minutes of daylight per day until Dec 20 +/- .....
I've been tracking this cycle with my family for about three years now...
Our weather here today shows it! 122' when I got out of work tonight. 
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06-20-2016, 07:39 PM #5Senior Member
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Brrrrr
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06-20-2016, 07:52 PM #6Senior Member
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Explain what you got there
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06-20-2016, 08:06 PM #7Senior Member
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A Irish mule by the water?
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06-21-2016, 04:31 AM #8Already miss the 310/562
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TY Candace... WOWzers on the temps, I saw on the national weather that Needles had 123 and Blythe was like 128??? That will fry your brain if you don't wear a hat... Originally Posted by Mrs.K034
Pretty cool you're doing that. Our weather here today shows it! 122' when I got out of work tonight. 
Me and my solstice/equinox project OR Vic and his Catalina project? Originally Posted by ChumpChange
I saw that it was mid to upper 60's at Santa Monica pier yesterday...HOTBOAT
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"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." John Adams
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06-21-2016, 04:50 AM #9Senior Member
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Your project. HBs project is easy to figure out.
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06-21-2016, 05:33 AM #10Already miss the 310/562
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SO.....
in the mid point of the summer due to the sun/earth position our shadows are at a minimum AND at the mid point of winter the shadows are maximum... Half way between are the spring/fall equinox...
I have this utility pole in my yard that I have been mowing around for the last 25 years so I decided to do something creative with it.... I marked the base and have cement around it so that I have a point of referece at grade... I cut the pole off at 10' height and put this aluminum cross on top (since God controls the sun/moon/stars/planets/orbit/atmosphere/universe and beyond)...
I marked a reference line pointing true north from the base of the pole and when the shadow is cast on the ground at the intersection of that north line on the given dates I have marked the intersection of the cross, like crosshairs in a scope
I have been doing this for about 3-4 years, initially I put in temporary markers and have been double checking the the marks over the last few years on the solstice/equinox dates...
This was known by the ancient cultures, in the area of four corners there is a place called Chaco Canyon and they took this whole study to a level not found anywhere in the globe with any ancient culture. They have the ONLY method of tracking the movement cycle of the moon using something similar and this would have taken many generations to study/chart/mark...
These pics are from last fall equinox 2015 (sept 23), about five-six feet due north from the marker that I set yesterday... NoonISH...
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-In a Republic, the sovereignty resides with the people themselves. In a Republic, the government is a servant of the people, and obliged to its owner, We the People..
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." John Adams
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