Happy Winter Solstice Everybody

[Orraloon]

...when it comes.

https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-december-solstice/

[Toepoke]

...unless you're in Australia 😁

No sunrise at the Arctic Circle today, no sunset at the Antarctic Circle. I think that's how it works? 🤔

 

[phart]

I was learning that it's the shortest day but not the day where suset is earliest or dawn latest, or vice versa in the southern hemisphere.

[daviebee]

3 minutes ago, phart said:

I was learning that it's the shortest day but not the day where suset is earliest or dawn latest, or vice versa in the southern hemisphere.

Same up here. Our sunsets started getting slightly later a few days ago but the sunrises will continue to be later for a few days.  All to do with how the earth is tilted by the moon apparently.  I'm sure we had a physics boffin on here at one time who could probably explain it better.

[thplinth]

Yes the sun 'dies' today, lies in rest for a few days and is reborn on Christmas Day. What a miraculous coincidence.

[phart]

33 minutes ago, daviebee said:

Same up here. Our sunsets started getting slightly later a few days ago but the sunrises will continue to be later for a few days.  All to do with how the earth is tilted by the moon apparently.  I'm sure we had a physics boffin on here at one time who could probably explain it better.

It's cause a day isn;t quite 24 hours. As we have an elliptical orbit so it's not a constant. This discrepancy causes it.

Edited December 21, 2021 by phart