Astronomy Picture of the Day: Summer Solstice

[6Foot2]

Link: Astronomy Picture of the Day: Summer Solstice

 

 

Explanation: What day is it? If the day -- and time -- are right, this sundial will tell you: SOLSTICE. Only then will our Sun be located just right for sunlight to stream through openings and spell out the term for the longest and shortest days of the year. But this will happen today (and again in December). The sundial was constructed by Jean Salins in 1980 and is situated at the Ecole Supérieure des Mines de Paris in Valbonne Sophia Antipolis of south-eastern France. On two other days of the year, watchers of this sundial might get to see it produce another word: EQUINOXE.

[6Foot2]

Good morning everyone! Today is the Summer Solstice for 2018, the longest day of the year. Some of us will have 19 hours of daylight!

 

[witch]

I shall be up on the hills later watching the sun go down.

I hate the return of the dark

[ShellfishClive]

This means I can stay up past my normal bedtime! Sweet!

[6Foot2]

Today is the longest day of 2019.

 

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