Energy Conscious

Architecture
Energy Conscious
Architecture

Microsoft
Assignment-6
Sun Path diagram
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 VIII SEMESTER B.ARCH. AR 424 ENERGY CONSCIOUS ARCHITECTURE_2020
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
DEENBANDHU CHHOTURAM UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
MURTHAL

TUTORIAL 05: DETERMINE SUN ANGLES FROM A GIVEN SUN PATH DIAGRAM
INTENT: This exercise is intended to enable you to read sun path diagram (stereographic
projection).
MARKS: 5%
EXERCISE: Select the Sun path diagram for the latitude of the given city (same as tutorial 1). Read
and enumerate the sun azimuth angle and sun altitude angle for summer solstice, winter solstice
and equinox days at hourly intervals from sun rise to sun set.
Example: Imphal
Summer Soloistic (21 June)
.

Sun path of sun rise in summer solstice at Sun path of sun set in summer solstice at
4:56 a.m. 18:36 p.m.

Sun
Sun
Sun set
rise 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
angles 18:3
4:56
6
Summer
Solstice
Azimuth (˙) 63.60 69.75 74.62 78.97 83.12 85.59 94.83 -112.21 -90.69 -85.43 -81.21 -77.01 -72.46 -67.24 -63.6
21 June

Altitude (˙) -0.42 12.59 25.52 38.77 52.21 65.78 79.38 86.58 73.12 59.52 46.00 32.64 19.52 6.81 -0.31
 2.Winter solstice (21 December)

Sun path of sun rise in winter solstice at Sun path of sun rise in winter solstice at
6:24 a.m. 17:00 p.m.

Sun Sun
Sun
Rise 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Set
16
Winter angles
6:24 17:00
Solstice
21 December Azimuth (˙) 115.51 119.47 127.39 137.58 150.77 167.17 -174.56 -157.13 -142.59 -135.25 -122.49 -115.57

Altitude (˙) -0.54 6.48 17.77 27.82 35.82 40.74 41.62 38.27 31.40 22.08 11.21 -0.37

3.Autumn/ fall Equinox (23 September)

Sun path of sun rise in Autumn equinox at Sun path of sun set in Autumn equinox at
5:33 a.m. 17:40 p.m.
Sun Sun
Sun
rise 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Set
angles
Autumn 5:33 17:40
/Fall
equinox Azimuth (˙) 89.79 92.63 99.24 107.0 117.4 133.33 159.21 -166.20 -137.82 -120.24 -108.96 -100.76 --93.98 -89.76
23 Sept.
Altitude (˙) -0.43 5.45 18.89 32.1 44.7 55.88 63.57 64.43 58.90 47.26 34.87 21.72 8.29 -0.52
 4. Spring/ vernal Equinox (21 March)

Sun path of sun rise in Spring equinox at Sun path of sun set in Spring equinox at
5:48 a.m. 17:56 p.m.

Sun Sun
Sun
rise 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Set
angles
Spring/ 5:48 17:56
Vernal
Equinox Azimuth (˙) 89.31 90.57 97.02 104.4 113.9 127.91 150.93 -175.07 -143.45 -123.41 -110.96 -102.22 -95.21 -89.27
21 March
Altitude (˙) -0.28 2.28 15.63 28.98 41.85 53.56 62.54 65.48 60.52 50.55 38.41 25.37 11.96 -0.41