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Dan,In case you haven't gotten enough answers already (that NOAA link was 
great.  Thanks to whoever put it up), we live at almost latitude 44 in WI, 
and oriented our house for solar gain.  So the walls are either E-W or N-S.  
At mid-summer, the sun shines in-just barely-the north windows at sunup and 
sundown, but at mid-day it's pretty close to if not quite directly overhead.  
It isn't coming in the south windows, at any rate; that only happens in the 
other half of the year (when we want it to).   If you are wondering whether 
something planted to the north of your house will get enough sun, my guess is 
possibly not because we are already losing a lot of sun angle by August and 
in these short seasons most fruit plants need all the light they can get 
while they are growing.  Hope this helps.Muffy Barrett
south-central WIWhere at least we finally have a little snow.

---------- Original Message ----------

Does anyone know how to determine the angle of the sun at midday at different 
latitudes?

I live within 100 yards of the 45th parallel (St. Paul, Minnesota).  During 
summer (midday), is the 
sun directly overhead? or at an angle?
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Hi Muffy,

Your post is very helpful and helps to illustrate the confusion I was having 
over this.  The info I
saw states that since the furthest north the sun gets is directly above the 
Tropic of Cancer, which
is south of us, the angle of the sun at midday on the summer equinox is about 
23degrees (if I
remember correctly) south from vertical, so it would not be directly 
overhead, but would be somewhat
south.  Given that, it was disconcerting to see the sun appearing to come 
from the north in the
morning and evening.  I have some trees and bushes planted on the north side 
of the property just in
front of some taller trees but mostly under their drip line and was hoping 
that they would get sun
due to the sun's angle at our latitude.   It seems that in the peak of summer 
they do not get much
direct sun.

Dan

On 1/28/2012 6:48 AM, Scott Weber and Muffy Barrett wrote:
> Dan,In case you haven't gotten enough answers already (that NOAA link was 
> great.  Thanks to whoever put it up), we live at almost latitude 44 in WI, 
> and oriented our house for solar gain.  So the walls are either E-W or N-S. 
>  At mid-summer, the sun shines in-just barely-the north windows at sunup 
> and sundown, but at mid-day it's pretty close to if not quite directly 
> overhead.  It isn't coming in the south windows, at any rate; that only 
> happens in the other half of the year (when we want it to).   If you are 
> wondering whether something planted to the north of your house will get 
> enough sun, my guess is possibly not because we are already losing a lot of 
> sun angle by August and in these short seasons most fruit plants need all 
> the light they can get while they are growing.  Hope this helps.Muffy 
> Barrett
> south-central WIWhere at least we finally have a little snow.
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
>
> Does anyone know how to determine the angle of the sun at midday at 
> different latitudes?
>
> I live within 100 yards of the 45th parallel (St. Paul, Minnesota).  During 
> summer (midday), is the
> sun directly overhead? or at an angle?
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