On 3/10/11 19:19 , Don Freeman wrote:
Richard Evans wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
On Mar 10, 12:26 pm, Richard Evans
wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
OTOH, it does nothing for amateur astronomers and
only makes us DXers stay up later.
The summer here doesn't do amateur astronomers any favours. In June the
sky never gets completely dark. I once got home at 1am in mid June, and
looked up to see a dark blue sky. Apparently in Northern Scotland it
doesn't get any darker than twilight.

Richard E.

You're pretty far north there, eh?

Some people may be surprised to hear that the UK is on the same
latitude as Canada. It's a lot milder here however because we have the
Golf Stream.

Richard E.

Is that a tributary of the Tennis River?

Still in the comedy racquet, are we.

On Mar 10, 5:23*pm, "D. Peter Maus" wrote:
On 3/10/11 19:19 , Don Freeman wrote:





Richard Evans wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
On Mar 10, 12:26 pm, Richard Evans
wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
OTOH, it does nothing for amateur astronomers and
only makes us DXers stay up later.
The summer here doesn't do amateur astronomers any favours. In June the
sky never gets completely dark. I once got home at 1am in mid June, and
looked up to see a dark blue sky. Apparently in Northern Scotland it
doesn't get any darker than twilight.

Richard E.

You're pretty far north there, eh?

Some people may be surprised to hear that the UK is on the same
latitude as Canada. It's a lot milder here however because we have the
Golf Stream.

Richard E.

Is that a tributary of the Tennis River?

* *Still in the comedy racquet, are we.



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all I know is that I'm going to do the shortest sunday 1-5am
show..ever.

On 3/10/2011 7:55 PM, Richard Evans wrote:

Some people may be surprised to hear that the UK is on the same
latitude as Canada. It's a lot milder here however because we have
the Golf Stream.

Richard E.



Parts of Britain are as far north as southern Alaska. When I visited
Inverness one May there was still considerable light in the sky at
midnight.

People in the contiguous 48 states are often unaware of how far to
the south they are compared with Europe. Minneapolis, Minnesota is
further south than Venice, Italy.


With best wishes,


Kevin Alfred Strom.
--
http://nationalvanguard.org/
http://kevinalfredstrom.com/

On Mar 10, 4:55*pm, Richard Evans
wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
On Mar 10, 12:26 pm, Richard Evans
wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
OTOH, it does nothing for amateur astronomers and
only makes us DXers stay up later.
The summer here doesn't do amateur astronomers any favours. In June the
sky never gets completely dark. I once got home at 1am in mid June, and
looked up to see a dark blue sky. Apparently in Northern Scotland it
doesn't get any darker than twilight.

Richard E.

You're pretty far north there, eh?

Some people may be surprised to hear that the UK is on the same latitude
as Canada. It's a lot milder here however because we have the Golf Stream..

Richard E.

Well - the sun doesn't set in Canada either! :-D I was thinking you
guys are about 55 north or so, maybe Labrador-ish...

On 10-Mar-2011, Richard Evans wrote:

But if they got up an hour earlier, they could get some stuff done
before going to work. Hence benefit from an extra hour of daylight.

It is not about getting stuff done. I get up between four and six most
mornings. I like getting up early.

It is about spending wonderful summer evenings playing with the kids.
I don't know what the weather is like where you are, but here in Silicon
Valley, we have perfect evenings for six or seven months of the year.
It is pretty good, most of the rest of the time. Too good to waste.

Phil

On Mar 10, 6:37*pm, Kevin Alfred Strom
wrote:
On 3/10/2011 7:55 PM, Richard Evans wrote:



Some people may be surprised to hear that the UK is on the same
latitude as Canada. It's a lot milder here however because we have
the Golf Stream.

Richard E.

Parts of Britain are as far north as southern Alaska. When I visited
Inverness one May there was still considerable light in the sky at
midnight.

People in the contiguous 48 states are often unaware of how far to
the south they are compared with Europe. Minneapolis, Minnesota is
further south than Venice, Italy.

With best wishes,

Kevin Alfred Strom.
--http://nationalvanguard.org/http://kevinalfredstrom.com/

Well, it is south of Verona and Milan. Not to be contrary, but on
average, Minnesota is a bit north of Italia. More on par with
France...but I nitpick.

People think of north as cold and south as warm. That's why Minnesota
and Maine are "north", the Riveria and Italy are "south" - but there's
a lot more to climate than latitude. Direct sea influence (water
temps and current heat transfer), indirect sea influence
(continentality), elevation and humidity all play a role. Minnesota
has a very high degree of continentality whereas Italy has almost
none, being right on the sunny Mediterranean.

Kilimanjaro, Mauna Loa and Aconcagua, in the midst of the world's
warmer climes, get snow year round. Such a puzzle! :-)

bpnjensen wrote:


Well - the sun doesn't set in Canada either! :-D I was thinking you
guys are about 55 north or so, maybe Labrador-ish...

Apparently London is around about 51 Degrees 30 minutes North.
Presumably more northerly parts of England would be about 55 degrees.

Richard E.

Look on a map at the Northern tip of West By God Virginia.Wayyyyyy up
there between Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Doggy and I are further North than some Yankees are.

In 1966, the temperature in Corinth,Mississippi got down to nineteen
degrees below Zero.Sometimes, it gets damn Cold down South.
cuhulin

Part of England is slowly tilting downward into the Sea.That is why they
built those clamshell gates/flood barrier in the Thames River.I read
about it in one of my snail mail Popular Science magazines wayyyyyyy
back when they were being built.
cuhulin, the Time Machine

On 3/9/2011 10:04 PM, Richard Evans wrote:
Not quite sure why you mention GMT, as that is the time zone we use in
the UK during the winter (Grenwich Mean Time).

OK, Steve - I'm not sure everyone else here got it. But I did. Yup.
My GMT clock is one hour behind in the summer. But it's because my
local clock is ahead. GMT (or - what is it now - "Coordinated Universal
Time"??) is one of the few time designations that stays the same.

It's interesting that the rest of the world has developed means of
adjusting things - software in our PC's, routers, and even the
transmitter control boxes that switch to nighttime patterns when
necessary (this is a broadcast group, after all). Most all of them keep
time internally through some means of syncing to GMT, but change the
display info for the benefit of us humans.

We can complain all we want about this, but it's kinda funny how
technology has adapted - or not - when you think about it.

Dave B.