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Xavi · Apr 9, 2013

All,

I stumbled across this site and though I would share...

I'm starting to get my plants outside and I live in a new house, so I don't have a good feel of sun position yet, so I found a site where you can put in your address and it will show you everything about sun position on Google Maps (sunrise, sunset, sun path, and position at specified time of day). It's an awesome tool.

http://suncalc.net/#/38.1336,-100.9795,5/2013.04.09/10:13

Bryan

Cayennemist · Apr 9, 2013

WHAT?!?!?!

Thanks! this is cool stuff.

pogeys · Apr 9, 2013

JoynersHotPeppers · Apr 9, 2013

Great tool. my backyard is directly south facing and gets so much sun I actually have to plant in areas for some things to allow shade, herbs in particular.

Scovie · Apr 9, 2013

Very interesting. It will be cool to check it out throught the year.

Thanks for sharing that.

pshngo · Apr 9, 2013

how does it work? at which zoom do you use? as you zoom in or zoom out the scale is in different spot?

compmodder26 · Apr 10, 2013

Very cool. Thanks for sharing this!

Chaosbites · Apr 10, 2013

Xavi · Apr 10, 2013

pshngo said:
how does it work? at which zoom do you use? as you zoom in or zoom out the scale is in different spot?

Once on the site, type in a location and you can click anywhere to move the center spot (or click and drag). Zooming does change the scale and gives a bigger or smaller perspective of the sun's location at a given day and time.

One bug I have found is that is does not correct itself if you change the map from showing due north at the top.

I hope this helps.