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Time of the year’s earliest sunset (web.archive.org)
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[-] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Remember that the world is tilted as it rotates. The "rays" are from the earth's rotation at an angle changing the sundown time on an axis.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Also the Mercator projection is infamously inaccurate. I'm surprised the straight lines are straight, actually.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is absolutely not Mercator (otherwise, meridians would be all vertical and the Polar Circle a straight horizontal boundary), and the diagonal lines do not quite appear straight.

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