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Durham, UK Dyer Observatory: 1953 Brentwood, Tennessee, US Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope: 1972 Bonn, Germany Ege University Observatory: 1965 Kemalpaşa, İzmir, Turkey Einstein Probe: 2024 Low Earth orbit: Einstein Observatory (defunct) 1978 Low Earth orbit: Elginfield Observatory: 1969 Middlesex Centre, Ontario, Canada Ellis Observatory: 2004
[19] [20] Marcus Terentius Varro wrote in the first century BC that this was regarded as the middle of winter. [21] In the same century, Ovid wrote in the Fasti that the winter solstice is the first day of the "new Sun". [22] The Calendar of Antiochus of Athens, c. second century AD, marks it as the "birthday of the Sun". [23]
The 2024 United Kingdom general election is held. [452] Security guard Gavin Plumb is found guilty of plotting to kidnap, rape and murder television presenter Holly Willoughby. [566] 5 July 2024: Sir Keir Starmer becomes the new British prime minister, succeeding Rishi Sunak. 5 July Results of the 2024 United Kingdom general election:
The 2024 winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, happens on Saturday, Dec. 21, in the Northern Hemisphere. The celestial event signifies the first day of winter, astronomically.
The Moon appears to be more yellowish near the horizon. This is for the same reason the Sun and/or sky appears to be orangey-red at sunrise/sunset. When the Moon appears near the horizon, the light coming from it has to pass through more layers of atmosphere. This scatters the blue away, and leaves yellow, orange, and red. [10]
From 2020 to 2024, Meta published the Daylight Map Distribution, which applied quality assurance processes and added some external datasets to OSM data to make it more production-ready. [41] OSM data also forms a major part of the Overture Maps Foundation 's dataset and commercial datasets from Mapbox and MapTiler .
Calculate the sunset time, which is the solar noon time plus the sunset hour angle in degree divided by 15; Use the sunset time as input to the solar geometry routine to get the solar azimuth angle at sunset. An interesting feature in the figure on the right is apparent hemispheric symmetry in regions where daily sunrise and sunset actually occur.
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