Analemma Part II, sunrise

I was admiring Joey’s sunrise photo he posted today and started thinking about where exactly the sunrise was this morning and when he would post a sunrise with the sun splitting the twin towers on Thachers.

After screwing around with astronomy tables for an hour I discovered a web calculator that figures it all out.  Solar Calculator click here.
1) Go to site and click on the map.
2) Keep double-clicking until the marker is in your backyard.
3) Go to the bottom of the table and click “show on map” both the sunrise and sunset.

Sunrise in Joey’s shot this morning at Good Harbor Beach was way down here:
This position of sunrise is not much different from a month ago at the winter solstice:

That’s because the sun is swinging around the bottom of the analemma (I posted here) and there isn’t much change. But we are gaining two minutes a day in day length now and it won’t be long before sunrise is before 7AM (January 29 to exact).

On June 21 during the summer solstice Joey will have the sun rise right about here on Good Harbor:

Check the solar calculator out. It is really easy to use once you get the hang of jumping around. Save your backyard position or figure out the exact day that a Good Harbor sunrise splits the uprights of the Twin towers. Lazy photographers who want to know exactly where the sun will be rising for their morning shot can figure it all out here.

If you do one thing, get the map centered on your favorite sunrise and sunset spot with the “show sunrise” and show sunset” lines turned on and then move the dates to June 21 and December 21.

Now they just need to make one of these things for the moonrise.