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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.
Sunrise, sunset, or sun position for any location – U.S. only; Sunrise, sunset and day length for any location – Worldwide; Rise/Set/Transit/Twilight Data – U.S. only; Astronomical Information Center; Converting Between Julian Dates and Gregorian Calendar Dates; Approximate Solar Coordinates; Algorithms for Computing Astronomical Phenomena
The December-solstice solar year is the solar year based on the December solstice. It is thus the length of time between adjacent December solstices. The length of the December-solstice year has been relatively stable between 6000 BC and AD 2000, in the range of 49 minutes 30 sec
The dates of the solstice varies each year and may occur a day earlier or later depending on the time zone. Because the earth's orbit takes slightly longer than a calendar year of 365 days, the solstices occur slightly later each calendar year, until a leap day re-aligns the calendar with the orbit.
The last glint of sunlight appears on the edge of the moon just before the start of the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 near Fredericksburg, Texas. It was the last total eclipse of the sun ...
An Excel workbook with VBA functions for twilight (dawn and dusk), sunrise, solar noon, sunset, and solar position (azimuth and elevation) by Greg Pelletier, translated from NOAA's online calculator for sunrise/sunset; Time and Date to find the current state of the sun in a specified place. "Twilight" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ...
Goose and Brant hunting season dates were approved in the Lake Erie marsh zone for Oct. 12-27, then again Nov. 16-Feb. 3. The youth and military waterfowl hunting weekend will be Sept. 28-29.
Sun path, sometimes also called day arc, refers to the daily (sunrise to sunset) and seasonal arc-like path that the Sun appears to follow across the sky as the Earth rotates and orbits the Sun. The Sun's path affects the length of daytime experienced and amount of daylight received along a certain latitude during a given season.