Winter solstice 2017 – Sun rise, noon and set times

Let’s calculate the time of some interesting astronomical events for the sun today:

RIse, NOOn, SEt, Equation of time (RINOOSEE) program by Sandro Bartolini
 - solar system ephemerides data from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Location: "Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e Scienze Matematiche (Siena)"
 - Geodetic location: (lat) 43.3139˚ (long) 11.339˚ (h) 305 m
 - Timezone (hours)= 1
 - Sun time - timezone time: [-14.6441] -14m 38.644s
 - Leap seconds considered= 37

- Atmospheric refraction correction: 1033 mb pressure, 5˚C temperature
RISE: 2017/12/21 - 07:45:35.385 az= 122.5146˚
NOON: 2017/12/21 - 12:12:48.723 alt= 23.2862˚
SET : 2017/12/21 - 16:40:02.280 az= 237.4850˚
Day duration: 8h 54m 26s

NOON (official timezone time): 2017/12/21 - 12:12:48.723
NOON (longitude compensated time): 2017/12/21 - 11:58:10.079
Equation Of Time (EOT)= 1m 49.9s

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