Recent content by Mohsin03129

A diagram of these angles would be useful when you say degrees below horizon , is that from the normal to a horizon?

Are you referring to the northern horizon here?

Yes I know that

The only way I see the angle shallowing is if I draw a sun with parallel rays hitting earth. The angle made by the ray with the normal to a tangent at any n-s point on the Earth surface gets shallower with increasing latitude. But surely normal to a tangent isn’t the horizon!? I am actually...

thanks, what is the best way to visualise this angle of incidence? Is it steeper at the equator?

I understand this. That sounds like a different reasoning than the “shallow angle “ one though?

“Sunlight due to refraction is greater in higher latitudes than at the equator because of shallower angles of incidence to horizon. It takes longer for Sun to go down half a degree at sunset at shallower angles.” When I draw a diagram of sun rays incident towards the earth, the angle appears to...