Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Summer Solstice
It has been a lifelong goal of mine to sit on Slaettaratindur (Faroes' highest mountain) and watch the sun go around me on the longest day of the year. Unfortunately, the solstice is on the 20th this year. Does that seem early to you? Anyway, we will be in Iceland at that time. We will be able to experience the disconcerting effect of having no night time, but i don't know how many days we have to get the full circle experience. I will have to ask one of my hosts to enlighten us. Either way, I think we will have to make the trek up the mountain, as I have actually never even been on it. That is probably hard to imagine, since I lived there for 8 years.
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Sun and Moon Data for One Day
The following information is provided for Slaettaratindur (longitude W7.0, latitude N62.3):
Wednesday
20 June 2012 Universal Time
SUN
Sunrise 02:33
Sun transit 12:30
Sunset 22:27
MOON
Moonset 21:50 on preceding day
Moonrise 03:53
Moon transit 13:14
Moonset 22:18
Moonrise 05:07 on following day
Phase of the Moon on 20 June: waxing crescent with 1% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated.
New Moon on 19 June 2012 at 15:03 Universal Time.
ok, interesting, but not really helpful. we will be in the wrong country!
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