Do you understant that this 8 is not vertical, but tilted in the sky when you are not on equator? Timelapse pictures in your pedowikia article show that clearly. At point where stick is glued on your meme picture it will be tilted at approx 45°. So with ~23° of Earth rotational axis inclination you will get 8 with the height of ~46° tilted by 45°. So maximum sweep angle for solar noon to clock noon will be 46° / sqrt(2) = ~33°.

If you take parallel light source instead of lamp, and set globe axis tilt to correct 23° (instead of 30° you have on picture) you will get exactly this 33° instead of your "about a 45°" (really ~43° on your picture, which is close to what you will really have on some planet with 30° axis inclination).

Do you understant that this 8 is not vertical, but tilted in the sky when you are not on equator? Timelapse pictures in your pedowikia article show that clearly. At point where stick is glued on your meme picture it will be tilted at approx 45°. So with ~23° of Earth rotational axis inclination you will get 8 with the height of ~46° tilted by 45°. So maximum sweep angle for solar noon to clock noon will be 46° / sqrt(2) = ~33°.

If you take parallel light source instead of lamp, and set globe axis tilt to correct 23° (instead of 30° you have on picture) you will get exactly this 33° instead of your "about a 45°" (really ~43° on your picture which is close to what you will really have on some planet with 30° axis inclination).

Do you understant that this 8 is not vertical, but tilted in the sky when you are not on equator? Timelapse pictures in your pedowikia article show that clearly. At point where stick is glued on your meme picture it will be tilted at approx 45°. So with ~23° of Earth rotational axis inclination you will get 8 with the height of ~46° tilted by 45°. So maximum sweep angle for solar noon to clock noon will be 46° / sqrt(2) = ~33°.

If you take parallel light source instead of lamp, and set globe axis tilt to correct 23° (instead of 30° you have on picture) you will get exactly this 33° instead of your "about a 45°" (really ~43° on your picture).

Do you understant that this 8 is not vertical, but tilted in the sky when you are not on equator? At point where stick is glued on your meme picture it will be tilted at approx 45°. So with ~23° of Earth rotational axis inclination you will get 8 with the height of ~46° tilted by 45°. So maximum sweep angle for solar noon to clock noon will be 46° / sqrt(2) = ~33°. If you take parallel light source instead of lamp, and set globe axis tilt to 23° (instead of 30° you have on picture) you will get exactly this 33° instead of your "about a 45°" (really ~43° on your picture).