It’d moved even less far in 24 hours. The huge dark patches around the shadow point to this being a lucky shot, with the shadow tip just about visible just southeast of the Royal Exchange. 22 hours and three minutes after this shot was taken, it was the winter solstice, with the Sun lowest inContinue reading “20th December 2020 12:00”
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19th December 2020 12:00
The shadow hadn’t moved far in four days, but then neither had I. Not much extra Googling required here, just a prt sc and on we go…
15th December 2020 12:00
At midday on 15th December I wasn’t actually hovering on the webcam page hammering F5 like a loon – as I said before I didn’t know about this until 8th January. But as it’s the first date in the image sequence, in here it goes. This is what the full screen image looks like: ItContinue reading “15th December 2020 12:00”
5th December 2020 12:00
I didn’t expect anything different four days later. Here’s the narrow gap, goodness knows where the Sun is there. This was going to be a recurring problem with the Sun this low and the buildings so high. I’d resigned myself to a winter not bothering. Despite vapid promises to save Christmas we locked down againContinue reading “5th December 2020 12:00”
1st December 2020 12:00
It had been misty for a week and the Sun had slipped eastwards unseen. Finally a new month brought a break in the weather and I huffed and puffed out from my kitchen desk to the corner of Lombard Street. This time, though, there was no sign of the Sun. Looking west down Lombard StreetContinue reading “1st December 2020 12:00”
18th November 2020 12:00
In true autumn fashion it had been a wet and windy week, with no clear middays at all. Even this one was chancing it as clouds massed from the west, but it stayed clear enough to see the Sun. The alignment had moved a surprisingly long way both north and west in 11 days, andContinue reading “18th November 2020 12:00”
7th November 2020 12:00
Another so soon? It’d been such a miserably overcast October that any hint of Sun was a joy, and I was out anyway this day, a long walk west to St James’ Park to wander around with my mum and drink wine and gawp at pelicans. I’d timed the lockdown-permitted meeting to be here atContinue reading “7th November 2020 12:00”
4th November 2020 12:00
Yes, 12:00 – this is the first one out of British Summer Time, so back an hour we go. The Earth’s orbit doesn’t care for such things, and GMT is the real time – the Sun’s highest at actual midday. With a second lockdown freshly in place and a month of inactivity looming, I decidedContinue reading “4th November 2020 12:00”
16th October 2020 13:00
The next day though was a bit brighter, the cloud a bit higher and more transparent, and I arrived by the river to find the Sun much much lower than two and a half weeks previously. There’s no denying it changes quickly at this time of year. So this was the first one on theContinue reading “16th October 2020 13:00”
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