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Summer Solstice - When "the Sun Stands Still"

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« Reply #15 on: June 20, 2008, 10:24:47 pm »



SUNRISE AT STONEHENGE
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« Reply #16 on: June 20, 2008, 10:27:29 pm »

             









                                                            Day Star Day :



                 Our Annual Star Gazer Celebration Of Our Closest Star On The Summer Solstice



            Catch a beautiful sunrise on the Summer Solstice. Notice Venus to the right of the Sun.


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A Musician plays the pipe celebrating the summer solstice
in small town Rakov, some 45 kilometers (28 miles) north-
west of Minsk, Belarus, Monday, June 23, 2008.

The festivities of Ivan Kupala, or John the Baptist, is similar
to Mardi Gras and reflects pre-Christian Slavic traditions and
practices.

(AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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The Sun's location among the other stars in the sky on the Summer Solstice.

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The Location of the Sun on the ecliptic on the Summer Solstice. Red lines mark constellation boundaries. The ecliptic is the apparent path that the Sun traces out along the sky, in relation to the stars. 

What is that incredibly bright star shining amidst the stars of the constellations of Taurus, Gemini and Orion? It is the Sun, to correct scale, in its exact location at the moment of the Summer Solstice, superimposed on a nighttime shot of the stars.

This is where the Sun is located in the daytime on the Solstice, although you can't normally see the other stars because of the Sun's overwhelming brilliance!

In 2007, the Summer Solstice occurs on June 21 at 18:06 Universal Time (2:06pm Eastern Daylight Time). At the time of the Solstice, the Sun is technically in the constellation of Taurus but its limb is actually over the boundary into Gemini.

The Solstice marks the longest day (and the shortest night!) of the year in the northern hemisphere and is also the day that the Sun rises and sets the farthest north on the horizon, and is highest in its path across the sky. If you go far enough north in latitude, above the arctic circle, the Sun is so high in the sky it never sets in the summer!

Although many people consider the Summer Solstice to be the beginning of summer, it is actually closer to the middle of summer. After the Solstice, the Sun starts setting earlier, and the days grow shorter. Hot weather persists for another couple of months after the Solstice because of the Earth's thermal inertia - it takes a while for the Earth and its atmosphere to cool off.

The Solstice occurs when the Sun is the greatest distance north of the celestial equator, about 23.5 degrees. The celestial equator is a projection of the Earth's equator into space. The Summer Solstice is when the north pole of the Earth's axis is tilted closest toward the Sun.

Open Cluster M35 is to the left of the Sun, and NGC 2175 is the red emission nebula near the bottom of the frame below the Sun. The two brightest stars in the frame (after the Sun!) are magnitude 2.75 Mu Geminorum and magnitude 3.3 Eta Geminorum, also known as Propus.

The background image of the stars in Gemini was taken with a 55mm f/2.8 lens on unhypered Ektachrome 200 transparency film with a 15 minute exposure.

The image of the Sun is a composite of an exposure for the surface of the Sun shot through a solar filter and a series of longer exposures that show the solar corona taken during a total solar eclipse based on digitized data from images taken by Andreas Gada during eclipse of February 26, 1998. I put the corona images together by a method of digital composition that preserved the dynamic range of the corona.

A total solar eclipse is the only time you could glimpse other stars in the sky with the Sun.



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