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The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Vietnamese: Mùa hè chiều thẳng đứng, French: À la verticale de l'été) is the third feature film by Vietnamese-born French director Trần Anh Hùng. It was released in 2000 and is the final part of what many now consider to be Tran's "Vietnam trilogy."
Hawaii is the only US state in the tropics and thus the only one to experience Lāhainā Noon. [5] In 2022 and 2023, the phenomenon occurred in Honolulu on May 26 and July 16. [ 4 ] Hawaii and other locations between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn receive the sun's direct rays as the apparent path of the sun passes overhead before ...
The word trilithon is derived from Greek 'having three stones' (τρι- tri-'three' + λίθος líthos 'stone') and was first used in its modern archaeological sense by William Stukeley. Other famous trilithons include those found in the Megalithic temples of Malta (which like Stonehenge are a UNESCO World Heritage Site ), the Osireion in ...
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At this point, the Sun's rays will fall exactly vertical relative to an object on the ground and thus cast no observable shadow. [ 2 ] To an observer on a planet with an orientation and rotation similar to those of Earth , the subsolar point will appear to move westward with a speed of 1600 km/h, completing one circuit around the globe each day ...
Sun path, sometimes also called day arc, refers to the daily (sunrise to sunset) and seasonal arc-like path that the Sun appears to follow across the sky as the Earth rotates and orbits the Sun. The Sun's path affects the length of daytime experienced and amount of daylight received along a certain latitude during a given season.
The solar zenith angle is the zenith angle of the sun, i.e., the angle between the sun’s rays and the vertical direction.It is the complement to the solar altitude or solar elevation, which is the altitude angle or elevation angle between the sun’s rays and a horizontal plane.
A trilithon (or trilith) is a structure consisting of two large vertical stones supporting a third stone set horizontally across the top. Commonly used in the context of megalithic monuments, the most famous trilithons are those at Stonehenge and those found in the Megalithic Temples of Malta.