The longest day of the year

In a previous blog about the Summer Solstice (June 20, 11:45 PM), I mentioned that the only area of the earth where the sun can EVER be directly overhead is between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

Since Colorado Springs and Pueblo aren't in the Tropics, even on the longest day of the year, the sun won't be directly overhead, but it WILL be as high in the sky as it's going to get.

With that in mind, here are the "length of day" and "how high in the sky was the sun?" statistics for June 21 in Colorado Springs and Pueblo.

Colorado Springs:
Hours of Daylight: 14 hours, 54 minutes
Maximum height of the sun at noon: 74 degrees

Pueblo:
Hours of Daylight: 14 hours, 51 minutes
Maximum height of the sun at noon: 75 degrees.

For MUCH more information about sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, etc. here's an outstanding Web site..http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.php

Enjoy!