Day/Night feature is fun, but some other features could be improved
Rating
80%
The globe comes with English print, but the rotating dial on the base is in German. Not too hard to figure out the seasons & months in German though. I've only found one globe spelling error so far ('Arabien Desert' instead of 'Arabian Desert'.) The bulb is incandescent and not a common type, but a spare bulb is included. The political map doesn't pop out as much when illuminated as on my Replogle globe, but the terrain is better illustrated.
The globe works by setting your longitude to the current time (less 1 hr for DST) on the horizontal ring, and the current date on the dial at the base to adjust for the Earth's orbital tilt. The location on Earth of sunrise, sunset and the sun's position at Noon is then shown when illuminated. Rotating the dial at the base through 360 degrees has the 'sun' moving between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. My globe doesn't quite reach the Tropic of Capricorn, but close enough. It's a great tool for showing why the equator has roughly equal day/night periods while far North/South latitudes can have long days or nights near the solstices. Sadly, the globe doesn't include an analemma, which would be a useful addition for a globe with this day/night feature.
I'm not a fan of the plastic meridians; thinner metal ones would have been nicer. Overall, though, this is a nice globe with a unique day/night feature.