Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Sun Trajectory

On Tuesday, October 23, 2012, I collected data to look at the sun trajectory.
I marked where the sun was at 6 different points throughout the day. I also collected the temperature,the pressure, the relative humidity, and the general weather conditions for each time point during day. I tried to get an evenly spaced amount of time throughout the day between the sunrise and the sunset to get a clear picture of the direction of the sun and the conditions throughout the day.

It was difficult to try to accurately pinpoint where the sun was in the sky as compared to the 2D drawing. I tried my best. it looked pretty good for the most part. It was not as clear of a curve as I thought it would be. The points did not make a perfect curve in line with the other points; however, this is what I perceived and what I recorded. 

Here is data as collected in my lab composition notebook

Here is the chart recreated to be more clear:
Time
Temperature
Pressure
Humidity
Weather conditions
7:53 am
47° F
30.17 in
100%
Chilly, sun rising, barely any clouds
10:33 am
63° F
30.21 in
72%
Comfortable, sunny, scattered clouds
12:03 pm
73° F
30.20 in
48%
Comfortable, sunny, few cirrus clouds
3:13 pm
80° F
30.14 in
23%
Warm, sunny, few cirrus clouds
5:03 pm
80° F
30.10 in
22%
Comfortable, sun going down, few cirrus clouds
6:43 pm
77° F
30.09 in
29%
Comfortable, sun going down, few cirrus clouds


Here is a picture of the sun trajectory recreated to be more clear:

Here is a sun trajectory graph according toe GAISMA (http://www.gaisma.com/en/location/macon-georgia.html):
Sun path
Today
June 21
December 21
Annual variation
Equinox (March and September)
Sunrise/sunset
Sunrise
Sunset
Time
00-02
03-05
06-08
09-11
12-14
15-17
18-20
21-23

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