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Longyearbyen astrocartography
Longyearbyen sits at 78.22°N, 15.6°E, inside the polar circle, where the sun stays up for weeks in summer and stays down for weeks in winter. Which of your planetary lines fall near it, and how closely, depends entirely on when and where you were born.
Longyearbyen, before any chart
- Position
- 78.22°N, 15.6°E
- northern hemisphere, polar latitudes
- Lines that can reach it
- Not all forty
- A body more than 11.8° from the celestial equator never rises or sets here
- Longest day
- Midnight sun
- At the summer solstice
- Time zone
- Arctic/Longyearbyen
- Clocks run 3 minutes behind the local sun
In short
No planetary line belongs to Longyearbyen. The lines that cross it are yours, and they are different for every birth moment, two people born days apart get different readings for the same street. What is true of Longyearbyen for everyone is its geometry: at 78.22°N, a body more than 11.8° from the celestial equator never rises or sets here, so some lines stop before they arrive.
Which of your lines reach Longyearbyen?
◆ A place has no fixed character
Any page telling you Longyearbyen is universally a “Jupiter city” is describing something that does not exist. The lines that cross it are different for every person born. The reading below is the only way to know which of yours reach here.
Do any of your lines reach Longyearbyen?
Three things, and the reading is yours. It runs on this device and is not kept.
What Longyearbyen’s position does to a reading
Astrocartography is geometry before it is anything else, so where a city sits changes how it behaves. These are facts about Longyearbyen rather than about you, they hold whoever is reading.
How close is close, here
Distances here are measured as real ground: one degree of orb is 111 km, the same width everywhere on earth. That matters at Longyearbyen, because a degree of longitude here is only about 23 km, 80% narrower. Older software that measures overhead lines in longitude will therefore report a wider figure than we do for the same city. Neither is wrong; ours describes a distance you could actually walk.
Some lines stop before they arrive
A rising or setting line is a horizon curve, and it exists only where the body actually crosses the horizon. At 78.22°N that means a body within 11.8° of the celestial equator. The Sun itself exceeds that at midsummer, which is precisely what the midnight sun is: for part of the year it does not rise or set here at all. Any body further from the equator than that threshold is circumpolar, its arc ends short of Longyearbyen, and there is genuinely no line here to be near. We end it where it ends.
The same geometry, in daylight
The equation behind a rising line is the equation behind sunrise, and at Longyearbyen it has no solution in midsummer. The sun does not set, the horizon stops dividing the day, and the horizon lines of the outer bodies stop with it. It is the most visible demonstration there is that these lines are geometry rather than decoration.
The clock against the sun
Overhead and underfoot lines are meridians, they depend on longitude, not on what a clock happens to show. Longyearbyen sits almost exactly on its own zone’s meridian, so midday on the clock and midday by the sun agree to within a few minutes. Any planet standing overhead here has its opposite line running down the far meridian at 164.4°W, half a world away.
Places near Longyearbyen
All cities →Nothing else in the gazetteer sits within a degree of orb of Longyearbyen, so a line that misses here misses on its own. These are the nearest places to weigh it against.
| Place | Distance | In orb degrees |
|---|---|---|
| Reykjavik astrocartography · Iceland | 1,992 km | 17.89° |
| Helsinki astrocartography · Finland | 2,035 km | 18.28° |
| Oslo astrocartography · Norway | 2,043 km | 18.36° |
| Stockholm astrocartography · Sweden | 2,103 km | 18.89° |
| Copenhagen astrocartography · Denmark | 2,510 km | 22.55° |
| Edinburgh astrocartography · United Kingdom | 2,577 km | 23.15° |
| Nuuk astrocartography · Greenland | 2,638 km | 23.70° |
| York astrocartography · United Kingdom | 2,776 km | 24.93° |
About Longyearbyen
Which planetary lines run through Longyearbyen?
That depends on the day, hour, and place you were born, lines are personal, and two people born days apart can have completely different ones crossing Longyearbyen. Enter your birth details on this page to see which of yours pass nearby and how close they run.
Is Longyearbyen a good place to live?
There is no universally good or difficult city. Longyearbyen will hold some kinds of work and make others harder, depending on which of your lines reach it and how closely. Every line offers something and asks something in return, and we show both halves.
How close does a line have to be to Longyearbyen to count?
We measure the distance from the city to the line as real ground, about 111 km to the degree, the same everywhere on earth. Inside roughly half a degree is a direct hit; out to about two degrees still reads. Because a degree of longitude at Longyearbyen's latitude is only about 23 km, older software that measures overhead lines in longitude will quote a different figure for the same city.
Do some planetary lines never reach Longyearbyen?
Yes, and that is real rather than a limitation of the software. At 78.22°N only a body within 11.8° of the celestial equator rises and sets at all. Anything beyond that is circumpolar here, so its rising and setting lines end before they arrive. We stop the arc where it truly stops rather than drawing a line that does not exist.
Where exactly is Longyearbyen?
Longyearbyen sits at 78.2232° latitude, 15.6267° longitude, keeping Arctic/Longyearbyen time, with a population of about 2,417. Those coordinates are the point every line distance on this page is measured from.
What if none of my lines are near Longyearbyen?
Then we say so and leave it there. Most of the world is quiet ground for most charts, and a reading that finds something meaningful in every city on earth is not telling you anything. Quiet ground is not bad ground, it simply asks less of you.