Comment on Park shades not working
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
At high latitudes such as Seattle, there is no orientation that will provide shade at all times of year.
Best they can do is center it. If they set the shade south of the benches, you get no shade in summer during the morning or late afternoon when the sun rises and sets in the north.
Whats your proposed design? Make the shade 4x bigger for 4x the price?
Use your knuckle! The sun will be coming from the south east and setting south west. So if you had an umbrella you could point it south facing?
Even better! Make the umbrella move!
Or more beterer…make the shade laaarger!
Any of those things can be better than 1/8 of a bench available any hour past 2pm.
No that’s not how sunrise/set works in summer at far north latitudes.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I beg your pardon?
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Ok, I looked it up myself. The sun rises more in the northeast
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and sets in the northwest
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(shademap.app/@47.62818,-122.37965,16.04275z,17516…)
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Check out the solar path of somewhere north of the arctic circle in summer.
Other@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
This has been puzzling me all day. Does anyone know of a good animation that shows the sun’s path for different locations and different times of the year?
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Does shademap.app do it for you?
There’s also Stellarium, which can be used to show the path of the sun across the sky.