Oh How the Darkness Creeps Up

I'm sitting at home, half watching television and half surfing the internet, when I think to myself, better get up to bed.  A quick look at the clock reveals it's only just gone ten o'clock.  How can that be when it's been dark for so long, already.  As i'm not heavily engaged in anything I have a quick look for an online sunrise and sunset table for the month only to find, to my amazement, that it's getting darker by nearly four minutes per day.  Four minutes per day, That's a lot.

In ten days it will be nearly forty minutes darker per day and by the end of the month over an hour less of glorious autumunal sunlight will be falling on us each and every day.  Check out the table below, then follow this link to see for yourself.  Call me nerdy but I found it fascinating.


Think on the bright side, it'll be four seconds lighter on 22nd December than on 21st.

Ah those light nights........

			Length of day		Solar noon
Date	Sunrise	Sunset	This day	Difference	Time	Altitude	Distance
							(106 km)
1 Sep 2012	06:14	19:46	13h 32m 28s	− 3m 48s	13:00	46.5°	150.945
2 Sep 2012	06:15	19:44	13h 28m 39s	− 3m 49s	13:00	46.2°	150.910
3 Sep 2012	06:17	19:42	13h 24m 49s	− 3m 49s	13:00	45.8°	150.874
4 Sep 2012	06:18	19:39	13h 20m 58s	− 3m 50s	12:59	45.4°	150.837
5 Sep 2012	06:20	19:37	13h 17m 08s	− 3m 50s	12:59	45.1°	150.801
6 Sep 2012	06:21	19:35	13h 13m 16s	− 3m 51s	12:59	44.7°	150.764
7 Sep 2012	06:23	19:33	13h 09m 25s	− 3m 51s	12:58	44.3°	150.727
8 Sep 2012	06:25	19:30	13h 05m 33s	− 3m 52s	12:58	43.9°	150.690
9 Sep 2012	06:26	19:28	13h 01m 40s	− 3m 52s	12:58	43.6°	150.653
10 Sep 2012	06:28	19:26	12h 57m 47s	− 3m 52s	12:57	43.2°	150.615
11 Sep 2012	06:29	19:23	12h 53m 54s	− 3m 53s	12:57	42.8°	150.577
12 Sep 2012	06:31	19:21	12h 50m 01s	− 3m 53s	12:57	42.4°	150.538
13 Sep 2012	06:33	19:19	12h 46m 08s	− 3m 53s	12:56	42.0°	150.499