Introduction: The purpose of this lab was to investigate the time of solar noon, and ultimately, a solar day through various dates throughout the year. In order to do this, the application starry night was utilized to find the time when the sun was bisected equally by the meridian, or solar noon, on the first and 16th of each month of the entire year. If this experiment is conducted, then the time of solar noon and solar days will vary depending on the date and month of the year. Materials: Starry night application Blank length of solar day chart Writing utensil Laptop Procedure: Open the starry night application Reset the viewing location from Jersey City, NJ to Groton, CT by clicking the arrow on the side and scrolling through to find …show more content…
If the time is above 12:00:00 then you should write +, and if it is below, it should be -. For example, if the time was 12:01:30, the time you should write in the third column, +1:30 but it the time was 11:58:30, the time should be