![]() If you go out exactly 24 hours later and look for the Sun, the star won’t be directly behind it now. You might be able to pick out a bright star that’s right in your line of sight, behind the Sun. Let’s say instead of a brilliantly glowing orb the Sun was transparent and you could see stars around it in the middle of the day. But, for our purposes let’s just say you are somewhere the Sun is crossing your meridian right at Noon by the Civil Time on your watch. It might not cross exactly at Noon from your location because there are all these things like the how far East or West you are in your time zone, Daylight Savings or Summer Time, or how far along the Earth has moved in its yearly orbit around the Sun. Twenty-four hours later if you go outside you’ll see the Sun cross at (more or less) the same time. In Civil Time, a Solar Day starts at midnight and if you go outside right at Noon and look South, you will (more or less) see the Sun cross your local meridian. ![]()
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