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| Zewad |
its the.... AUTUMNAL EQUINOX!!!! w000.. its exciting isnt it...
The date (near September 22 in the northern hemisphere) when night and day are nearly of the same length and Sun crosses the celestial equator (i.e., declination 0) moving southward (in the northern hemisphere). In the southern hemisphere, the autumnal equinox corresponds to the center of the Sun crossing the celestial equator moving northward and occurs on the date of the northern vernal equinox. The autumnal equinox marks the first day of the season of autumn.
The above plots show how the date of the autumnal equinox shifts through the Gregorian calendar according to the insertion of leap years. The table below gives the universal time of the autumnal equinox. To convert to U. S. Eastern daylight saving time, subtract 4 hours, so the autumnal equinox occurs at September 23, 1998 at 1:34 a.m. EDT; September 23, 1999 at 07:23 a.m. EDT; and September 22, 2000 at 13:11 (1:11 p.m.).
Note that the times below were calculated using AutumnalEquinox[] in the Mathematica application package Scientific Astronomer, which is accurate to within only an hour or so, and in practice gives times that differ by up to 15 minutes from those computed by the U.S. Naval Observatory (which computes September 23, 1999 at 11:31 UT instead of 11:23 UT and September 22, 2000 at 17:27 UT instead of 17:11). |
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| LiGHT78 |
| kinda lost me after the first paragraph, but that sounds very interesting. |
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| Zewad |
| quote: | Originally posted by LiGHT78
kinda lost me after the first paragraph, but that sounds very interesting. |
i didnt even read it .. i just copied and pasted it.. and now reading it i realize i forgot the above chart they mention and the bottom table..
oh well.. you get the picture.. |
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| Lepanto |
hehe paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrttttttttttttttttttyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy w000t w000t w000000000000000000000t
let's hit the keg, i'll pump!
the 22nd happens to be a thurs, a college party night here and also my weekly pot-smoking night...:D |
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| MrSquirrel |
Why did you deface my Sig-Fu, Mebot, why?!?
I demand an answer!
:p
MrS |
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| Zewad |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mebot
silly hats only |
tuesdays coming...:nervous: :nervous: |
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| Mebot |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrSquirrel
Why did you deface my Sig-Fu, Mebot, why?!?
I demand an answer!
:p
MrS |
it needed an update after 2 years. help celebrate an encore semester :P don't worry i still have the original. I can put it back if you want me to. |
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| Mebot |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zewad
tuesdays coming...:nervous: :nervous: |
I live in a giant bucket! |
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| MrSquirrel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mebot
it needed an update after 2 years. help celebrate an encore semester :P don't worry i still have the original. I can put it back if you want me to. |
Nah, an answer was all I wanted.
MrS |
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| paranoik0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zewad
its the.... AUTUMNAL EQUINOX!!!! w000.. its exciting isnt it...
The date (near September 22 |
you're wrong.. it was last weekend, n00b
http://discotecavespas.com/equinox2005/
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| Zewad |
no you are wrong..
my site is better than yoru site... |
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