# Calculating the delay of sunrise

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calculating-the-delay-of-sunrise/127311>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 6, 2002, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calculating-the-delay-of-sunrise/127311 "2002-09-06T17:33:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![cagiva650](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cagiva650](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cagiva650)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calculating-the-delay-of-sunrise/127311/1 "2002-09-06T17:33:49Z")

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I am looking for a reference site to calculate the exact latitude of my house, in degrees, minutes and seconds.

SOmething I can plug in my address and presto that info is churned out for me?

TIA

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**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calculating-the-delay-of-sunrise/127311/2 "2002-09-06T18:23:58Z")

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Try [this](http://geocode.com/eagle.html) one.

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**Author:** ![Keeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Keeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keeve)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calculating-the-delay-of-sunrise/127311/3 "2002-09-06T18:40:08Z")

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Wow, Chandeleur, that’s way cool.

Turns out that my next-door neighbor is 0.147 seconds North and 0.123 seconds East of me.