Night Watchman: March Hare

Much is revealed by the pace and path of the sun and other sky denizens.

By Bo Berman
Mar 1, 1998 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 4:26 AM

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This month’s sky antics are bunny-quick. Right now, the sun changes its north-south motion, or declination, at the year’s fastest rate, rising two sun-diameters higher every three days. Such a swift ascendancy explains the sun’s increasingly long path through the sky in March, and also why each day offers about three minutes more sunlight than the day before.

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