Solstice   (translated from Spanish)
... latín solstitium (sun sistere or quiet sun). solstices they are those moments of the year ... towards the North and the South. The solstices are the moments of the year in ... its more boreal or austral positions. The solstices are both points of the celestial sphere ... the celestial equator. The existence of the solstices is caused by axial inclination of the Earth axis. In the solstices the length of the day and ...
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Sabbat (neopaganism)
... Wheel of the Year. These include the solstices and equinoxes, and four additional festivals sometimes ... September 20-23 The dates on which solstices and equinoxes occur shift in a regular ... for Dates and Times of Equinoxes and Solstices. In the Southern Hemisphere, most Pagans advance ... festivals" differently - i.e., the equinoxes and solstices. The rest are the same.) Druids do ... days earlier than the true midpoints between solstices and equinoxes. If the Gregorian calendar ...
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Chinese calendar
... next or the period between two winter solstices (see Jiéqì section). A lunar year is ... a solar year, especially that between winter solstices, is used to number the months. Hours ... spaced points along the ecliptic, including the solstices and equinoxes, positioned at fifteen degree intervals ... Chinese astronomy, seasons are centered on the solstices and equinoxes, whereas in the standard Western definition, they begin at the solstices and equinoxes. Thus the term Beginning ...
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Wheel of the Year
... British Isles, Ron Hutton In England, the solstices and equinoxes are referred to as quarter ... Cross-)Quarter Sabbats between the Equinoxes and Solstices based on a count of days rather ... festivals are near the midpoints between the solstices and equinoxes, and use the midpoint dates ... and winter solstice in the southern. These solstices coincide on or about June 21. July ... and summer solstice in the southern. These solstices coincide on or about December 21. ...
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Season
... often considered to begin at the astronomical solstices and equinoxes: these are sometimes known as ... based on a lunisolar calendar, where the solstices and equinoxes mark the middle of each ... Irish definitions of seasons. See below, using solstices and equinoxes as mid-days. Month ranges ... Summer (August 7) Autumn (November 6) Using solstices and equinoxes as mid-days With the solstices (peaks) are used as the middle ...
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Solstice
... changes direction it stands still momentarily. So solstices are those moments of the year when ... energy received by the other hemisphere. The solstices mark the points of greatest imbalance in ... and Southern hemispheres. The dates of the solstices in the most widely used Gregorian calendar ... world. Behaviour of the Sun On the solstices the length of the day and the ... timezones Dates and Times of Equinoxes and Solstices has an online calculator.
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Talk:Wheel of the Year
... at both equinoxes (not one of the solstices) and lowest at both solstices (but relatively low to the north at ... days earlier than the precise midpoints between solstices and equinoxes. If the Gregorian calendar had ... the precise cross-quarter points then the solstices and equinoxes would fall halfway through the ...
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Astronomy on Mars
... of days after the summer and winter solstices rather than about one month after as ... as it does so. The equinoxes and solstices are different as well: for the northern ... As on Earth, precession will cause the solstices and equinoxes to cycle through the zodiac ...
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User:Hephaestos/hipu
... the equinoctial point, using Archimedes' observations of solstices. Hipparchus himself made several observations of the solstices and equinoxes. From these observations a year ... also had measurements of the times of solstices from Aristarchus dating from 279 B.C ...
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Talk:Season
... the seasons are defined so that the solstices and equinoxes occur in the middle of ... based on a lunisolar calendar, where the solstices and equinoxes mark the middle of each ... error by accident. In lunisolar calendars, do solstices and equinoxes mark the middle of seasons ...
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