Saturday, June 20th, 2009
What is a solstice?
Sunrise: 5:59, sunset 8:26 – 14 hours and 27 minutes of daylight
The earliest humans knew that the sun’s path across the sky, the length of daylight, and the location of the sunrise and sunset all shifted in a regular way throughout the year.
They built monuments, such as Stonehenge, to follow the sun’s yearly progress.
Today, we [...]

