"Mike Weller" wrote in message
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I think he is being relevant.

He is not being relevant. My comment was simply relative to the potential
position of the sun, regarding the consistency with other objects in the
image, and regarding where the shadow of the airplane would wind up.
Whether the sun is 90 degrees above, 80 degrees above, or 70 degrees above
is irrelevant, and it has nothing to do with this particular thread.

His comment was that of an idiotic pedant who has nothing real to
contribute, so instead chooses to try to pick apart casual comments that he
sees lying around.

However, to be fair. the minimum angle
from 48N would be 25 degrees. Not exactly straight up and down!

I don't know what you mean. His math regarding the precise angle of
elevation of the sun was basically correct. In the winter at the 48th
parallel, the angle of elevation is in the neighborhood of 20 degrees, while
in the summer it's in the neighborhood of 60 degrees.

20 degrees isn't very close to directly overhead at all, but you try to walk
around with your eyes pointing up 60 degrees and tell me it doesn't feel
like "darn close to overhead", even if it's not literally directly overhead.

If Mr. Fry had his way, I guess only someone in the tropics would be allowed
to use the term "high noon", or talk about when the sun is "overhead".

What is particularly idiotic is that anyone would think it makes any sense
whatsoever to act like there's some sort of official definition of phrases
like "nearly so" and "darn close".

Pete