Kenneth Cole
14 March 1998
Noon Project Submission Explanations
The Noon Project Submission Form was created to allow
participants in the project to easily submit data on the site's location and the angle of
the Sun at local noontime on March 18, 19, or 20, 1998.
How to Report Your Latitude and Longitude
The table below shows suggested ways to submit latitudinal and
longitudinal information. If you don't know the latitude and longitude of your site, leave
it blank. As long as you submit the name of the city and country where you are located, we
can find your site's latitude and longitude. We have a world atlas that contains even the
smallest villages in the world, so just tell us where you live.
Latitude and longitude have traditionally been measured in degrees,
minutes and seconds (DMS). Recent advances in technology along with the standardization of
the metric system direct us toward measuring global coordinates in decimal fractional
units of degrees (DD). Noon Project Coordinator, Kathleen Smith has nice explanation on how
to convert from Decimal Degrees (DD) to Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds (DMS).
You may submit your site's latitude and longitude using either Decimal
Degrees (DD) or Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds, (DMS).
Here is an example from Faubion Middle School McKinney, Texas 33° 11' 51" N by 96°
36' 54" W using both methods. Remember, it is only necessary to submit once using
either method.
Degrees, Minutes, Seconds
(DMS) |
~or~ |
Decimal Degrees
(DD) |
| Latitude: |
33:11:51 N dms |
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Latitude: |
33.2 N dd |
| Longitude: |
96:36:54 W dms |
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Longitude: |
96.62 W dd |
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Measuring The Angle of The Sun
| The sketch to the right shows the angle of the Sun in light green. Measure the angle
at local noontime,
a.k.a., Sun transit. This is when the length of the Sun's shadow reaches its shortest
length. This is the first time that the Noon Project has been done by directly measuring
the angle of the Sun. We are interested to hear how you measure this angle. You can share
your unique ideas in the Additional Information box.
Take measurements beginning about 20 minutes before Local Noon Time and record the shadow lengths on paper
covering the ground. |
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Submitting A Quilt Image
| Last year Faubion Middle School created a Noon Schools '97 page. We gathered images from participating
schools and made thumbnail images from those images. To celebrate the project, we placed
those images on a Web page and linked to all of these schools. We will be creating
another page this year to celebrate Noon '98 Participating Schools. If you are a
participating school and have a Web site with images, we would like you to let us know
which image you would like for us to include in the quilt. You may tell us which picture
to use by giving us the Web address of the page containing the image and then describe the
image. However, the easiest way to tell us exactly which image to use is to write the URL
of the jpg, jpeg, or gif image file.
The example below gives the URL of the image of the Sun's shadow drawing above. Here is
how we would submit that information: |
| Quilt Image: |
http://geocities.datacellar.net/Athens/8231/sunangle.gif
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Submitting the Completed Form
Once you have completed the form just click the submit button. You will
then see the information that is being sent to us through email. If you see that you have
made an error or wish to amend, add, or remove any information, we suggest that you email
the change to kcole@isource.net . You could
resubmit using the form if you choose to do so. We will post the information that is
collected on the Noon Project '98 Quilt within 24 hours.
Depending on the volume of submissions, the reliablity of the Internet connectivity, and
any other situations that we encounter, we plan on completing the Quilt within 10 days. We
will post updated messages everyday also. Good Luck, I hope that you will have at least
one sunny noon hour during the window of opportunity, March 18, 19, and 20. Also, please
visit our Noon Project '98 Quilt page and give us feedback.
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