Snape's part in death of Sirius

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 108016

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:

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> Shaun? Care to give us some times for all this? I'm assuming 
> it's at or near the summer solstice and that Hogwarts is well 
> north of Edinburgh. That would put sunset after 10:00 PM, but I'm 
> not sure by how much. 
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> ...edited...
> 
> Pippin


Asian_lovr2:

Let's see if Shaun's data matches mine.

For reference I took the coordinates of area (1a) on my map of the
location of Hogwarts (Northwest of Iverness).

http://www.homestead.com/BlueMoonMarket/Files/Hogwarts/UK-Hogwarts.htm

Roughly, 57d 45' 00" N by 4d 36' 00" W

Date: June 15, 1996 (not perfect but very close)

The following information is provided for Scotland (longitude W4.6,
latitude N57.8):

Saturday 
15 June 1996          Universal Time                 

-SUN-
Begin civil twilight      02:04 (am)               
Sunrise                   03:17 (am)                
Sun transit               12:19                 
Sunset                    21:21 (9:21pm)                
End civil twilight        22:34 (10:34pm)  

-MOON-
Moonset                   19:22 on preceding day
Moonrise                  03:32                 
Moon transit              11:53                 
Moonset                   20:17                 
Moonrise                  04:17 on following day   

Phase of the Moon on 15 June: waning crescent with (ZERO) 0% of the
Moon's visible disk illuminated.

New Moon on 16 June 1996 at 01:36 Universal Time. 

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html
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Make careful note of how early and late Twilight occurs, even the
Sunrise/Sunset times are much more extreme than I would have expected.

Everyone's estimate seem close on Sunset, but far off on Morning
Twilight and Sunrise; 2:04am and 3:17am. That trims a couple hours off
the estimates.

Sorry to 'steal your thunder' Shaun, but I had aleady looked it up for
my local sunrise/sunset and decided as long as I had the address to
the US Naval website, I might as well look up Scotland. Plus, I had my
E-Maps as a quick reference.

I do have more to say on this issue, and find this one of the better
discussion in a while. Hope this data can help you all resolve the
timeline a little closer, and I look forward to adding my ADDITIONAL
two cents later.

With apologies to the List-Elves for not making a more on canon topic
post.

Steve/asian_lovr2 - soon to be B_BoyMN