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The elapsed time from the local solar noon of one day to the next is exactly 24 hours on only four instances in any given year. This occurs when the effects of Earth's obliquity of ecliptic and its orbital speed around the Sun offset each other. These four days for the current epoch are centered on 11 February, 13 May, 26 July, and 3 November. It occurs at only one particular line of longitude in each instance. This line varies year to year, since Earth's true year is not an integer number of days. This event time and location also varies due to Earth's orbit being gravitationally perturbed by the planets. These four 24-hour days occur in both hemispheres simultaneously. The precise UTC times for these four days also mark when the opposite line of longitude, 180 away, experiences precisely 24 hours from local midnight to local midnight the next day. Thus, four varying great circles of longitude define from year to year when a 24-hour day (noon to noon or midnight to midnight) occurs.
For the same reasons, solar noon and "clock noon" are usually not the same. The equation of time shows that the reading of a clock at solar noon will be higher or lower than 12:00 by as much as 16 minutes. Additionally, due to the political nature of time zones, as well as the application of daylight saving time, it can be off by more than an hour.
In the US, noon is commonly indicated by 12 p.m., and midnight by 12 a.m. While some argue that such usage is "improper"[4] based on the Latin meaning (a.m. stands for ante meridiem and p.m. for post meridiem, meaning "before midday" and "after midday" respectively), digital clocks are unable to display anything else, and an arbitrary decision must be made. An earlier standard of indicating noon as "12M" or "12m" (for "meridies"), which was specified in the U.S. GPO Government Style Manual,[5] has fallen into relative obscurity; the current edition of the GPO makes no mention of it.[6][7][nb 1] However, due to the lack of an international standard, the use of "12 a.m." and "12 p.m." can be confusing. Common alternative methods of representing these times are:
Kevin Joseph Noon, age 65, of Bel Air, Maryland, passed away on December 20, 2023, at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, surrounded by his loved ones. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the son of the late Robert and Dorothy (Hemelt) Noon.
Kevin was the beloved husband of Debbie Weikert Noon, and they shared 39 and a half wonderful years of marriage together. He was a devoted family man, and his love and warmth touched the lives of all who knew him.
An avid outdoorsman, Kevin found solace and joy in the beauty of nature. He spent countless days on his beloved boat, the "Afternooner," exploring the waterways he cherished. Kevin had a passion for crabbing, fishing, and hunting, and he was a proud member and Past Commodore of the Bush River Yacht Club. His love for the outdoors was further reflected in his achievement of becoming an Eagle Scout, a testament to his commitment and perseverance.
Kevin had a keen appreciation for classic cars. Additionally, he took pleasure in the art of restoring old guns, appreciating the craftsmanship and history they held.
He is survived by his loving daughters, Nicole Noon (John Mattew) Winchester and Kathleen Frances Noon, as well as his sister, Charlene Noon Fluster, and brother, George James Noon. Kevin was preceded in death by his sister, Mary Colleen Warner.
Celebration of Life will be on Saturday January 27, 2024, at 11:00 am at the Bush River Yacht Club. All are welcome to join the Family!
In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests that contributions be made to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation at chesapeake.cbf.org, an organization Kevin held dear to his heart.
Kevin's memory will forever live on in the hearts of those who knew and loved him. May he rest in peace, surrounded by the beauty of the outdoors he so deeply cherished.
Joyce Ann Noon, age 77, died peacefully on Wednesday, February 7, 2024 at Serenity Hospice and Home near Oregon. She was born on May 10, 1946 in Oregon the daughter to Richard and Edith (White) Fridley. Joyce attended Oregon Schools and graduated from Oregon High School in 1964. She married Arnold L. Noon on April 2, 1966 in Oregon. She worked over 28 years for the Ogle County USDA office. She was a longtime member of the Oregon Church of God, and loved being a part of the Tuesday Prayer Group. Joyce was very active in her church serving on the Mission Committee and as a Sunday School teacher. Joyce loved to cook, especially for her family every Sunday afternoon after church. She and Arnold loved to travel. Together they were able to travel to all 50 states. She also collected butterflies and nativity scenes. Here grandchildren and great grandchildren were dearest to her heart. She was predeceased by her parents Richard and Edith Fridley, her husband Arnold, and brothers-in-law Michael Baker, Dale Noon, and Stan Ubben. She is survived by her children: LeAnn Oltmanns of Oregon; Jennifer (Felipe) Rodriguez of Dixon; and Alan (Melody) Noon of Oregon; sister Jeanne Baker(Terry Skinner) of Rhinelander, Wisconsin; sisters-in-law Kathy Ubben of Mt. Moris, IL; and Sharon Noon of Omaha, Nebraska; 4 grandchildren: Matt Oltmanns of Oregon; Molly (Josh) Mattus of Bury St. Edmunds, England; Bryce Noon of Loveland, Colorado; and Brenna Noon of Oregon; great-grandchildren Thea and Arlo Mattus and several nieces and nephews. Funeral service will be 10:30 AM, Monday, February 12, 2024 at the Oregon Church of God with the Rev. Michael Hoffman pastor of the church officiating. Visitation will be at the church on Sunday, February 11, 2024 from 3-5 PM. Burial will be at the Daysville Cemetery following the funeral service. A memorial fund is established for the Oregon Church of God.
Dennis Cowles is an old friend from Fairbanks, now transplanted to Anchorage, who for years has had the unsettling habit of calling me up and asking me questions I can't answer. Last week, Dennis called and put his latest query this way:
"I'm putting together information for a survival guide. In explaining how to use the sun as an indicator of direction, I found that the time between sunrise and noon is not the same as between noon and sunset. As a matter of fact, there's up to 16 minutes difference. Why is that?"
Asking around, I found that few of the people I work with were aware that this was so, but we soon learned that Dennis was right. Checking the Naval Observatory Ephemeris and various time charts showed that the times for sunrise and sunset are, indeed, skewed about the noon hour. (This is true noon we're considering here, please note--the time when the sun is at its highest point in the sky, unaffected by too-wide time zones or Daylight Savings.)
It took some time, but with a little help from my friends (especially Hans Nielsen), I began to think of a question I'd asked my teachers many years ago. The question was: What is that funny-looking figure-eight-shaped thing on the side of the globe?
I have always considered myself fortunate in having been able to attend one-room (all grades) schools until I reached high school. One really neat thing about my schools was that they always had a globe, each with the figure-eight thing stuck someplace out in the Pacific Ocean (few modern globes carry them any more). It seems to me that we used to go through an awful lot of teachers back then, but I never had one who could tell me what that figure was. As it developed, it turned out that Dennis' question gave me the answer to what it was that bothered me so many years ago.
We live with a 24-hour day, and with only extremely minor variations, that's how long it takes the earth to turn on its axis relative to the fixed reference of the universe. We go around the sun once a year, but--and here's the catch--we don't pass around it an equal number of degrees each day. We would if we went around in a perfect circle, but the earth's orbit is an ellipse. During our winter months (in the northern hemisphere), we're a little bit closer to the sun than we are during the summer. By the laws of physics, we therefore swing around a little faster, but the earth keeps rotating on its axis at the same rate.
This means that when we look due south at noon in February, the sun has fallen a little behind where it "should" be, and it is slightly west of the north-south meridian overhead. As summer approaches and the earth swings wider (and slower) in its orbit, the sun catches up, and by late April it has moved slightly ahead (to the east) of a north-south line passing through the zenith at noon. This apparent meandering performs a complete cycle each year, during which the sun is actually due south at noon on only four days. These days are not, by the way, at the equinoxes and solstices, as you might expect, but do fall close to them.
When the elevation differences of the sun in the sky due to seasonal variations are included, the resulting figure-eight-shaped path for the sun in the sky at noon is the same for an observer any place in the world (those living above the Arctic Circle will just have to imagine the figure passing below the horizon). This path is called an "analemma," and it is this figure that is found on the old globes. (There's not enough room here to go into the reasons why it is smaller at the top than at the bottom, or why it is not exactly centered on the noon meridian.)
The main reason that old globes stressed the importance of the analemma is that relating the sun's (or a star's) location at a known time was the only way that early navigators were able to determine their longitude, and minor variations like this counted.
Since it was established by an Act of Congress in 1946, scientists at the Geophysical Institute have studied geophysical processes from the center of the Earth to the surface of the sun and beyond, turning data and observations into information useful for state, Arctic and national priorities.
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