Why delhi and chennai midday sun overhead exactly in one year?
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Chennai is located at 13.5*N. Therefore is located in the tropics. Every location in the tropics has 2 days per year where the sun is overhead. There is a point 23.5*N and 23.5*S of the equator that only get 1 day (solstice) where the sun passes over head. In Phnom Penh the sun passes over head on the 20th April and 20th August.
This year in April I actually made a video about this event. As embarrassing as the video is because I'm speaking in it, you're welcome to watch it here: Phnom Penh gets the sun directly overhead
At any moment, a specific point of the earth is directly facing the sun, from the viewers perspective at this point, the sun is directly overhead and said to be at the zenith. This point races across the earths surface continually at the earth rotates. Over the course of a year this point spirals up and down between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn.
People can mistakenly think of the equator as being the point on earth where the sun is directly overhead but infact due to the earth being tilted on an axis, it's still only overhead here twice a year during the 2 equinox events in March and September. During the 2 solstice events each year in June and December the sun at the equator only reaches a maximum peak angle of 23.5* from directly overhead.
It's actually fairly easy to work out the exact time and location where the sun will be overhead using the following awesome website and some simple maths. This is how I knew exactly when to film my video about the suns zenith. In the map on this web page, it actually shows the position of the suns zenith at the current moment or a specific time you select.
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This year in April I actually made a video about this event. As embarrassing as the video is because I'm speaking in it, you're welcome to watch it here: Phnom Penh gets the sun directly overhead
At any moment, a specific point of the earth is directly facing the sun, from the viewers perspective at this point, the sun is directly overhead and said to be at the zenith. This point races across the earths surface continually at the earth rotates. Over the course of a year this point spirals up and down between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn.
People can mistakenly think of the equator as being the point on earth where the sun is directly overhead but infact due to the earth being tilted on an axis, it's still only overhead here twice a year during the 2 equinox events in March and September. During the 2 solstice events each year in June and December the sun at the equator only reaches a maximum peak angle of 23.5* from directly overhead.
It's actually fairly easy to work out the exact time and location where the sun will be overhead using the following awesome website and some simple maths. This is how I knew exactly when to film my video about the suns zenith. In the map on this web page, it actually shows the position of the suns zenith at the current moment or a specific time you select.
I hope it help you..
Please mark me brainlist
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