by how many degrees does the sun move to the right or the left along the horizon each day or weak?
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The sun moves between 23.5 degrees N and S latitude.  In one year, (starting with spring equinox), it will move from the equator N 23.5 to the tropic of Cancer, south 47 deg. to the Tropic of Capricorn, then back north to the equator, another 23.5 deg. for a total of 94 degrees.\n\nDividing 94 degrees by 365 gives about 0.258 degrees per day or 1.806 degrees per week.
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Days get shorter and shorter as we move away from the sun.  Longer and longer as we move towards the sun in out orbit.
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Neither of those, it never sets because it doesnt move through space.  The Earth turns, so it appears that the sun is setting.
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The two equinoxes (fall and spring) determine when the sun starts moving in the other direction and the two solstices (winter and summer) determine the shortest and longest days.  Your observation should continue to move in the direction as previously observed, but due to daylight savings time, the time will change...so get up earlier than 7 am to see what you want to see (sunrise for you will be at 7:14 am).
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The Earth is tilted by 23 1/2 degrees. During the Summer months, the north is pointed toward the Sun allowing more direct sunlight. During the winter, we are tilted away from the sun so the sunlight is more indirect as the sun seems lower in the sky. There are 4 cardinal points in our calender; Summer solstice, autumnal equinox, winter solstice and vernal equinox. Beginning of summer, fall, winter and spring. This coincides with the position of earth as it goes around the sun. Each of the cardinal days can take place over a three day period, 20th, 21st, 22nd. On June 20th, summer solstice, it is the longest day of the year. It is also the day that the north pole is pointing directly at the sun. The next day it will have passed this point and start pointing away from the sun, hence, the days will also start getting shorter. For further info, feel free to email me, orion_1812@yahoo.com
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hey buddy! hello.\nwe all know that the earth rotates around the sun and also on its own axis. we also know that an imaginary line divides the earth into 2 equal halves. this line is the equator. the upper part is the north side and the lower is the south side. the axis of the earth does not run perpendicularly, but is tilted at an angle of about 16 degrees (if i remember it correctly)\n\nnow, as the earth rotates simultaneously on its axis and around the sun, it so happens that sun rays fall on one side that is either on north or on south side for continuous 6 months. this means that there is day for continuous 6 onths on one side and night on the other. so, it totaly depends that at what time of a year you r comparing both the poles temperature. if you compare the temperature of the 2 sides in the month of june, north pole will be hotter and south pole will be cooler. opposite happens during december and january. \nat a certain time it may also happen that temperatures of both the poles are same! this may happen at the time of transit. that is when sunshine is equal to both the poles!\n\nhope i have answered u.\n\ngood luck.
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The reason there is differing amounts of daylight is that the Earth's axis is tilted with respect to the plane of its rotation about the sun. When the north pole is tilted towards the sun, the northern hemisphere days get longer. The point in the Earth's orbit about the sun where the plane through the Earth's axis that is perpendicular to the Earth's plane of orbit ALSO passes through the sun itself (i.e. the Earth's rotation axis is lined up with the sun, north end closest) is the summer solstice. When the same plane passes through the sun again, only with the south pole closest, that is the winter solstice. At summer solstice, the length of the day is longest in the northern hemisphere. At winter solstice the day is shortest in the northern hemisphere. The opposite is true in the southern hemisphere. On the equator the lengths of the days don't change at all! The further you get from the equator, the more the length of the days change with the seasons.\n\nSo let's talk northern hemisphere. If the longest day is around June 21 (summer solstice) and the shortest day is Dec 21 winter solstice, you can think of the length of the days as changing smoothly from shortest to longest as you move from winter to summer solstice. If you do the geometry to figure out how the length of days changes with the seasons, it looks a lot like a sine wave. It's actually shaped a little differently because the Earth's orbit is not a circle--that would make a sine wave exactly for the length of days--but instead an ellipse. But it's still pretty close to a sine wave. If you look at a sine wave, you'll notice that as the wave approaches the bottom, slows down its descent until it almost "flattens" at the bottom, but not quite. Then after the bottom, it goes up more steeply until somewhere in the spring it is changing as fast as possible (pretty near to the vernal equinox), then begins to slow down again until it hits the peak at the summer solstice. After the summer solstice, the longest day, the length of days begins to fall, slowly at first and then ever faster, until somewhere in fall (pretty near the autumnal equinox) it's changing as fast as it's ever going to. Then it begins to slow down, until it hits the minimum at the winter solstice again. If you look back at the description about, you'll notice that the rate at which the length of days change also varies with the season. In fact, the rate of change is like a sine wave, too, only it's shifted by a season from the wave that describes the rising and falling of the length of the day itself.\n\n\nFor the latitudes farther away from the equator, the amplitude of the sine wave is larger. For the southern hemisphere it is flipped upside down compared to the same latitude in the northern hemisphere. And on the equator, the "sine" curve as zero amplitude--that is, it's a straight line.\n\nIn calculus you would say that the rate of change of a function (the "derivative" of the function with respect to time) tells you how fast the daylight is changing on a given day. And, in calculus you also learn that the rate of change of a sine wave is a cosine wave--or just another sine wave shifted back by 90 degrees. And 90 degrees of the sine wave describing the length of days corresponds to one season on Earth!
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For civil twilight, the sun is between the horizon and 6 degrees below the horizon.  During nautical twilight, it is between 6 and 12 degrees below the horizon.  During astronomical twilight, the sun is between 12 and 18 degrees below the horizon.  It can also be defined by the zenith angle of the sun, where the endpoints would be 96, 102 and 108 degrees, respectively (the horizon has a zenith angle of 90 degrees).\n\nSometimes the entire time from sunset to the sun being 18 degrees below the horizon is called astronomical twilight.
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Why would you think that the sun does NOT move? \n\nThe sun moves in many ways. It rotates on its axis; different latitudes of the sun move at different rates, as can be observed with sunspots. The sun moves in its orbit around the barycenter of the solar system, which can be quite far removed from the sun's center. The sun's surface oscillates in different modes, similar to the ringing of a bell that has been struck by a hammer. The surface of the sun moves, and we observe solar prominences and other phenomena. The sun's surface will eventually expand as it changes character and becomes much larger as it moves through its lifespan. The entire solar system is moving through our galaxy at a tremendous speed, and our galaxy is moving as well very rapidly.\n\n\nI might also note that for vamsee, the answerer below, it is true that the distance from the earth to the sun is slowly increasing, but this is better attributed to tidal effects than the Big Bang:\n\nhttp://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=317
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I live in Alaska, so pay attention.  The earth is tilted; it doesn't spin at a right angle to the sun.  In summer, the north pole is tilted toward the sun, and as a result, the sun appears to circle the horizon, never actually setting.  In the winter, the opposite occurs.  The sun may peak over the southern horizon, but further north it never really rises.  In spring and fall, there is no difference from the rest of the U.S.
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The sun came up in the East and will set in the West. The day doesn't care.  It depends upon my attitude, which is very good right now.  I reserve the right to change my mind.
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The sun doesn't have to move in order for the planets to have a sunset or sunrise.  Always remember that the earth constantly rotates and takes 24 hours to make a full rotation. On one side of the earth there will be light versus the other side will be darkness.
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Compared to the stars the moon moves from west to east.\nIn 27.3 days it returns to it 'start star'.\nIn one night it moves (360 / 27.3) degrees.\nIn one night it moves 13,2 degrees from west to east compared to the stars.
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Since the Sun is made of gas, different parts of it rotate at different speeds. Near the Sun's equator, it completes one rotation every 27 Earth days. But near the poles, it's about 31 Earth days. This is called "differential rotation". \n\nHope thats clear??
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The sun does not orbit the Earth (LOL).  The reason we have night and day is because it takes the Earth about 24 hours to rotate (spin).  Each time a side is facing the Sun, it is day, and when it is turned away it is in night.
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The sun always travels from east to west.  No matter where you are or time of year
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The Sun, in its seasonal movement through the sky, passes directly over the equator twice each year on the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes, which occur in March and September (respectively). At the equator, the rays of the sun are perpendicular to the surface of the earth on these dates.\n\nPlaces near the equator experience the quickest rates of sunrise and sunset in the world, taking minutes. Such places also have a relatively constant amount of day/night time on every day throughout the year compared with more northerly or southerly places.