"Joe Egginton" wrote in message


But is winter solstice the day the sun is lowest in the sky at midday?

Because we have some strange sunrise and sunset times at this time of year

There is axle running north and south through the earth about which the
earth rotates called the poles. The ends of it are the nrth and south
poles.

It is tilted to the disk we think of as earth's orbit around the sun.
And what that means is that the sun rises higher in the sky in summer
and lower in the winter. It has a set maximum and minimum angle called
the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. So the total diference in height
fromn summer to winter is about 47 degrees.

But the earth moves faster around the sun in winter than in summer
giving another reason for the differences in day lengths.



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