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NEW YORK (AP) — Fall is in the air — officially. The equinox arrives on Saturday, marking the start of the fall season for the Northern Hemisphere.
Fall equinox 2024 arrives on Sunday, September 22. ... Sunrise illuminates fall colors in the Adirondacks in New York state. More than 40 peaks in the chain reach over 4,000 feet (1,219 meters ...
The fall equinox, also known as the autumnal equinox, is when astronomical fall arrives. This year, it will occur at 8:44 a.m. EDT on Sept. 22, according to the Naval Observatory.
The fall equinox, which occurs at the same moment worldwide, arrives on Saturday, September 23, 2023, at 2:50 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) in the Northern Hemisphere. Tips for best fall-colors ...
In the Northern Hemisphere after the autumnal equinox, the days begin to get shorter as the winter solstice gets closer. The seasons result from the Earth's tilt toward or away from the Sun.
Manhattanhenge, also called the Manhattan Solstice, [1] is an event during which the setting sun or the rising sun is aligned with the east–west streets of the main street grid of Manhattan, New York City. The astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson claims to have coined the term, by analogy with Stonehenge.
Systematically observing the sunrise, people discovered that it occurs between two extreme locations at the horizon and eventually noted the midpoint between the two. Later it was realized that this happens on a day when the duration of the day and the night are practically equal and the word "equinox" comes from Latin aequus, meaning "equal", and nox, meaning "night".
The September equinox (or southward equinox) is the moment when the Sun appears to cross the celestial equator, heading southward. Because of differences between the calendar year and the tropical year, the September equinox may occur from September 21 to 24. At the equinox, the Sun as viewed from the equator rises due east and sets due west ...