December solstice 2014

Late dawn. The sunset. Short Day. A long night. For us, in the Northern Hemisphere, the December solstice marks the longest night and shortest day of the year. Meanwhile, the day of the December solstice, the Southern Hemisphere has its longest day and shortest. This special day will be held on Sunday December 21, 11:03 PM UTC (5:03 PM CST). A fun fact about the next solstice is that it occurs within two and a half hours of the new moon. No matter where you live on Earth, a solstice is the signal to celebrate. Follow the links below for more information on the December solstice 2014.

When is the solstice of where I live? 

The solstice occurs at the same time for all of us, everywhere on earth. In 2014, the solstice December comes the December 21 to 5:03 p.m. CST. Universal time is 11:03 PM. This is when the sun in the vault of our sky reaches its furthest point south during the year. In this summer solstice, the northern hemisphere has its shortest day and longest night of the year. To find the time in your workplace, you have to translate to your time zone. Click here to translate Universal time to your local time. Remember: traduces of 11:03 PM UT on December 21. So for the greater part of the eastern hemisphere of the world - Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand - the December solstice really comes on 22 December. For example, if you live in Perth, Australia, you have to add 8 hours of Universal time to find out what the solstice occurs on December 22, 7:03 AWST (standard time of western Australia).

What is a solstice?

The first inhabitants of the land they knew that the path of the sun across the sky, the length of daylight, and the location of the sunrise and sunset everything changes on a regular basis throughout the year. They built monuments such as Stonehenge in England, or, for example, Machu Picchu in Peru - to follow the sun annual yearly progress. But today we want to see the different solstice. We can imagine that from the point of view of space. Today, we know that the solstice is an astronomical event, caused by tilt of the earth on its axis, and its movement in orbit around the sun. Due to the fact that the Earth does not orbit vertical, but that is tilted on its axis in 23-and-a-half a degree, the Earth's northern and the Southern Hemisphere trade places to receive the light of the sun and the heat more directly. The tilt of the Earth, not the distance from the sun, is what causes winter and summer. The December solstice, the northern hemisphere tilts away from the sun in the year. The December solstice, the ground is placed in your orbit to the sun stays below the horizon north pole. As seen in 23 and a half degrees south of the equator, in the imaginary line around the world known as the Tropic of Capricorn, the sun shines directly on his head at noon. This is what the south more than the sun never sets. All the places south of the equator have lengths greater than 12 hours in the December solstice. In the meantime, all the places north of the equator have lengths less than 12 hours. For us in the northern part of the Earth, the shortest day in the solstice. After the winter solstice, the days become longer and the nights shorter. It is a seasonal change that almost all advertisements.

Where must I look to see signs of the solstice in the nature? 

Throughout. For all the creatures of the ground, nothing is so fundamental as the length of the light of the day. After everything, the sun is the last source of any light and the heat in the ground. If you live in the north hemisphere, be able to notice take early dawns and puttings of the sun and the fall of the arch of the sun for the sky every day. You might notice how down the sun it appears in the sky at midday locally. And insure of glance its shade at midday. In the epoch of the solstice of December, it is your shade at midday longer than the year. In the south hemisphere, it is opposite. Early dawn comes and evening comes late. The sun is high. It is your shade at midday shorter than the year.

Why not as early as possible the sunset is the shortest day? 


The December solstice marks the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere and the longest day in the southern hemisphere. But dawn more early in the evening - or sooner if you're south of the Equator - happens before the solstice. Many people realized that and question in this regard. The key to understanding the sunset earlier is not to focus on the time of the sunset or sunrise. The key is to focus on what is called true solar noon - the time of day that the sun reaches its highest point, on a trip through your heaven. At the beginning of December, solar noon true comes almost 10 minutes before the clock that makes it in the solstice around December 21. With true noon comes after the summer solstice, as well as the times of sunrise and sunset. It is this discrepancy between hour and an hour of sunlight that causes the first sunset and the sunrise sooner rather than precede the December solstice. The discrepancy occurs mainly due to the tilt of the earth's axis. A secondary but another factor that contributes to this discrepancy between the noon and the clock at noon the sun comes from orbit - oblong - elliptical of the earth around the sun. Orbit of the earth is not a perfect circle, and when we are closest to the sun, our world is moving faster in orbit. The closest point to the sun - or perihelion - comes at the beginning of January. So we are moving faster in orbit around now, slightly faster than the average speed of 18 miles per second. Solstice fireworks II to groovehouse in Flickr. The exact date of the sunset more early depends on your Latitude. In mid-northern latitudes, comes at the beginning of December each year. In temperate latitudes of the north toward the north - as in Canada and Alaska - the earlier year sunset comes around mid December. Near the arctic circle, as early as possible the sunset and the December solstice occur at or near the same day. By the way, nor is the latest sunrise on the solstice. In the mid-latitudes of the north, the last dawn comes in early January. The exact dates vary, but the sequence is always the same: as early as possible in the evening in early December, the shortest day of the solstice around December 21, the last dawn in early January. And so the cycle continues. CONCLUSION: in 2014, the December solstice arrives the December 21 to 5:03 p.m. CST. It is the December 21 to 11:03 PM UT. Mark shortest day of the northern hemisphere (first day of winter) and the longest day of the southern hemisphere (first day of summer). Happy solstice, around the world!