THE SUN!!!!! not the newspaper =_=

[kentosaurs]

Hi everyone my main topic i wanted to ask is literally does the sun move other than moving from the east to the west???does it move slightly north or south once awhile??

I asked this because 2+ years back when i 1st started growing nepenthes my balcony was receiving very strong sunlight and my ventrata and my N mixta x fusca wasn't doing so well but they continue to grow but less pitchers.After months of growing neps since i started i realised that there was no more direct sunlight at all just bright light no direct sunlight.During that period of time which is until now my nepenthes has been thriving and pitchering very well for a guy which grow neps in a balcony.But a few days back the direct sunlight sudenly came back and now is shining brightly to my neps which are nearest to the outdoors,slowly getting more light.This is good for my sarrcs and VFTs but not that good for my neps.So my question is does the sun move other than the east to the west???To me it does judjing by the sunlight my balcony recives now but so far no negatif affects yet.So is my thoery of the moving sun true hahhahaha

Ken

[shawnintland]

Originally Posted by kentosaurs

Hi everyone my main topic i wanted to ask is literally does the sun move other than moving from the east to the west???does it move slightly north or south once awhile??

I asked this because 2+ years back when i 1st started growing nepenthes my balcony was receiving very strong sunlight and my ventrata and my N mixta x fusca wasn't doing so well but they continue to grow but less pitchers.After months of growing neps since i started i realised that there was no more direct sunlight at all just bright light no direct sunlight.During that period of time which is until now my nepenthes has been thriving and pitchering very well for a guy which grow neps in a balcony.But a few days back the direct sunlight sudenly came back and now is shining brightly to my neps which are nearest to the outdoors,slowly getting more light.This is good for my sarrcs and VFTs but not that good for my neps.So my question is does the sun move other than the east to the west???To me it does judjing by the sunlight my balcony recives now but so far no negatif affects yet.So is my thoery of the moving sun true hahhahaha

Ken

Hi Ken...how's this for magic - I bet your porch faces South! Yep, if you think about the seasonal changes and lengthening of the daylight hours in 'summer' and shortening in winter, you'll see that (in Northern Hemisphere) the sun appears to move South in the winter and North in the summer. Hence why we have 'summer' and 'winter'!

I know you must face South because 3 days ago my porch which faces directly South just started getting hit again. By mid November I get full sun under the eaves of my porch and really have to keep an eye on my plants.

Check wikipedia or elsewhere on the web, I'm sure there's some great diagrams and explainations out there that explain it better than I can!

[kentosaurs]

Hi shawn,

Thanks for replying but actually my balcony is facing north not south but its not directly north slightly to the east so its more like NE....no offense but i think u got it wrong hahaha...unless the sun rises from the west hhahahaahah which is definitly not so my balcony faces NE...And since we we get a little affect of the hemisphere stuff.....(I ASSUME) we are closer to the souther hemisphere so now the northern hemisphere is having their autumm so the southern should be having spring and therefore slowly more sunlight for us????hahahaha just a theory with no scientific base on it.

Ken

[strath76]

Hi Ken, you are on the right track with the sun 'moving' north and south. To try and put it simply, the earths orbit is slightly skewed. Such that if you take a globe it does not sit directly up and down on the poles. It rotates with the poles slightly off to the side. This is what gives the north and south hemispheres the distinct change in weather.

This is less pronounced where you are as you are close to the equator where the amount of light remains relatively constant. In the southern Hemisphere we have summer solstice on the 22nd of December. This is the day with the most day light hours (longest time between sunrise and sunset). The 22nd of June is winter solstice which is the opposite.

This all means that yes the earth does move around the sun in such away that the sun appears to be more south or north depending on the time of the year. Hope this helps explainit and that it makes some sort of sense.

[shawnintland]

Waaaaa! I guess I need to check a map again! Isn't KL in the Northern Hemisphere (even if 'just')? Here in Thailand, I can watch the sun set into the ocean by Dec/Jan when it reaches it's furthest South point, by June it sets waaaay to the North behind the mountains. Sunday was the Autumn Equinox, the midpoint between solar summer (longest days) and solar winter (shortest days). As I said, my porch is just starting to get 'cooked' the last few days, each day a little more and I know I face straight South as I look out onto the Southern cross over the sea every night when I go to bed! Of course, I'm willing to admit that I just MAY have it totally backwards!

Here's a diagram I just found on the web;


Anyway, when I was young....a looooong time ago(!) I had fun for a year (or maybe only half a year) marking my balcony railing with grooves marking the points at which the sun set every evening while I was sitting in the same spot. Of course I didn't have a nice 'over the ocean' view and there were cloudy days but I remember that it was impressive to see how far it moved. (I was quite far North in America).

Keep us updated on what you find out please!

[Cindy]

My whole apartment moves towards the East after the Northern's Summer Solstice on 20 June 2008.

My balcony is facing North, slightly to the West. Basically it translates to the place having direct sunlight streaming in during the late afternoons from the month of April till October. Other than that, it only receives bright indirect light.