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   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   In message  at Tue, 21 Nov   
   2023 20:59:33, Char Jackson  writes   
   >On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:12:14 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver"  wrote:   
   >   
   >>In message <38eoli9gt1t7jqlao7duhnckl4sh1186tb@4ax.com> at Mon, 20 Nov   
   >>2023 23:00:29, Char Jackson  writes   
   >>>On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:23:45 +0000, John Hall   
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>In message , Daniel65   
   >>>> writes   
   >>[]   
   >>>>>Bloody Hell!! I'd be in real trouble if the sun were anything like 'due   
   >>>>>south' at Noon!! ;-P   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Presumably you're in the southern hemisphere?   
   >>>   
   >>>I don't know about him but I'm in the northern hemisphere and I would   
   >>>describe   
   >>>the sun as being overhead at midday, but I certainly wouldn't say it was due   
   >>>south.   
   >>>   
   >>It'll only be overhead if you're south of the tropic of cancer (~23½ºN),   
   >>and then on only two days a year.   
   >   
   >The nice thing about being well north of there is that the sun is overhead at   
   >midday every day of the year. None of this due south business. ;-)   
   >   
   I think you're using the word "overhead" differently to me. Do you mean   
   "above the horizon"? I mean "directly above me", which it never is for   
   anyone not between the two tropics.   
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