Having tracked the shadow on the View from the Shard and consulted the plot too, I thought I knew pretty much exactly where this was going to be. But despite the second half of February basically being a northward move with a bare quarter-degree swerve to the west, I still went to the wrong side of the road.
Turns out those quarter degrees really count when the shadow’s projected over the City’s streets. So the alignment here was from over the road from 13th, and a good way south too. It was south even of the ugly metal and concrete barriers thrown up to prevent car attacks, and very nearly too far east for me to photograph, as east of this bit of London Bridge is a precipitous drop to an unloved and unwelcoming alley. I leant out as far as I could and it was still slightly misaligned. Still, it’s better than having it blocked by buildings. This will likely be the last time I can match it to the View from the Shard too, and you can just about see the shadow of the tip on the edge of the building at bottom left:
It doesn’t look like there’ll be many more days of the lazy webcam screengrab…
Shard Analemma 