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1. The tables on the following pages have been prepared by the Meteorological Department Curaçao (MDC), Meteorological Departement St. Maarten and KNMI and are reproduced here with their permission. The tables include six (6) public airports and aerodromes in that part of the High Sea, which is being served by the Curaçao FIR and St. Maarten TMA its air traffic services.
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1.1. The times in the tables are given in local time (hh:mm) for beginning of civil morning twilight (TWIL FROM), sunrise (SR) sunset (SS), and end of civil evening twilight (TWIL TO) for the year 2023. Four hours should be added in order to obtain the Co-ordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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1.2. The times given for the beginning of civil morning twilight and end of civil evening twilight are calculated for an altitude of the Sun 6° below the horizon, as commonly used.
The following
coordinates are used as reference measuring point:
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Curaçao
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Latitude 12 6’ 35’’ |
Longtitude -68 -55’ -48” |
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St. Maarten
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Latitude 18 2’ 27” |
Longtitude -63 -6’ -34” |
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Bonaire
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Latitude 12 7’ 48’’ |
Longtitude -68 -16’ -32” |
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St. Eustatius
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Latitude 17 29’ 43’’ |
Longtitude -62 -58’ -57” |
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Saba
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Latitude 17 38’ 43’’ |
Longtitude -63 -13’ -14” |
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Aruba
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Latitude 12 30’ 05’’ |
Longtitude -70 -00’ -43” |
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1.3. The tables are calculated for the year
2023
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Curaçao
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Page GEN 2.7-2 and GEN 2.7-3 |
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Bonaire
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Page GEN 2.7-4 and GEN 2.7-5 |
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St. Maarten,
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Page GEN 2.7-6 and GEN 2.7-7 |
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St. Eustatius
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Page GEN 2.7-8 and GEN 2.7-9 |
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Saba
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Page GEN 2.7-10 and GEN 2.7-11 |
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Aruba
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Page GEN 2.7-12 and GEN 2.7-13 |
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