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At what time of day does the illuminance coincide with that on my planet at noon?

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My planet (I'll call it $P$ for practical reasons) is 2 AU from the Sun, a distance in which it receives 25 % of the sunlight that Earth receives. This can be estimated with the Inverse Square Law:

\begin{gather*} E=\frac{1}{d^{2}} \end{gather*}

For $P$:

\begin{gather*} E=\frac{1}{2^{2}}=0.25 \end{gather*}

With the following formula you can find the illuminance (in lx) on the Earth if you know the apparent visual magnitude of the Sun:

\begin{gather*} E=10^{\frac{-14.18-V}{2.5}} \end{gather*}

For the Earth:

\begin{gather*} E=10^{\frac{-14.18-(-26.75)}{2.5}}\approx 106660 \end{gather*}

Then, by multiplying the illuminance on Earth by 0.25, the illuminance on $P$ is found, being 26 665 lx.

My question is, what angle must the Sun form with the Earth's surface for this illuminance to occur, and at what time of day does this happen?


I found this formula to find the illuminance (in lx) knowing the distance to the light source (in m), its intensity (in cd) and the angle of incidence:

\begin{gather*} E=\frac{I}{d^{2}}\cos\theta \end{gather*}

Solving for $I$:

\begin{gather*} I=\frac{Ed^{2}}{\cos\theta} \end{gather*}

For the Sun from Earth at noon:

\begin{gather*} I=\frac{106660\cdot 149598000000^{2}}{\cos\ 0°}\approx 2.387\times 10^{27} \end{gather*}

The intensity of the light source (the Sun) is this, in cd.

Then, solving for $θ$:

\begin{gather*} θ=\arccos\frac{Ed^{2}}{I} \end{gather*}

And finally replacing the corresponding values:

\begin{gather*} θ=\arccos\frac{26665\cdot 149598000000^{2}}{2.387\times 10^{27}}\approx 1.32° \end{gather*}

Here, the value of $E$ corresponds to that of $P$, but the distance to the light source corresponds to that of the Earth and its intensity remains the same. Then, the angle of the Sun ($θ$) should be 1.32° for the expected illuminance to occur, but this value is not convincing. Did I do something wrong with this procedure? I'm not an expert in photometry.

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