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"At the solstice, the angle between the Sun’s rays and the plane of the Earth’s equator, called declination, appears to stand still," read the Farmer's Almanac website.

In a way, I was wishing that I had a handy Dad who had taught me how to fix just about anything rather than how to figure out the angle of declination of the sun.

Right ascension and declination The first coordinate in the equatorial system is declination, the angle between the object and the celestial equator (measured along the object’s hour circle).

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Each day, the team of astronomers working at the observatory calculated noon according to the meridional height of the Sun, along with other complementary data such as its degree of declination (angle ...

The sun's changing declination is what determines whether the sun's rays strike us at a low angle or more directly. Declination on a celestial globe is analogous to latitude on a terrestrial globe.

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This is because the angle between the sun's rays and the plane of the earth's equator (known as declination) will appear to stand still during the solstice.

Specifically, he thought they might use magnetic inclination – the changing angle of Earth’s surface relative to its magnetic lines – and magnetic declination – the difference in direction ...