Comment

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?

source

Sort:hotnew top

bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

when the sun rises and sets in the north.

I beg your pardon?

source
- bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Ok, I looked it up myself. The sun rises more in the northeast
  
  Image
  
  and sets in the northwest
  
  Image
  
  (shademap.app/@47.62818,-122.37965,16.04275z,17516…)
  
  source
- deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Check out the solar path of somewhere north of the arctic circle in summer.
  
  source
- Other@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?
  
  source
  - bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
    
    source
altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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.

source
- deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  No that’s not how sunrise/set works in summer at far north latitudes.
  
  source