Again, I got up early and with this being the first day of summer I set up the camera out on a 2nd story deck to capture the sunrise. I promise not to do this every morning.
View: Overlooking the Mississippi River into Illinois (S of St. Louis)
Camera: Samsung R10
Time-Lapse setting: 5 seconds
Editing software: Pinnacle Studio 12
Music: A Gift To Be Simple – Summer Solstice (How appropriate)
Time: 5:30 am — 9 am
Summer Solstice
June 21 marks the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere and simultaneously heralds the beginning of winter in the southern hemisphere. In 2009, the solstice occurs and summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere summer begins early on June 21, at 1:45 a.m. EDT (5:45 UTC).
The earth spins around its axis, an imaginary line going right through the planet between the north and south poles. The axis is tilted somewhat off the plane of the earth’s revolution around the sun. The tilt of the axis is 23.5 degrees; thanks to this tilt, we enjoy the four seasons. For several months of the year, one half of the earth receives more direct rays of the sun than the other half.
When the axis tilts towards the sun, as it does between June and September, it is summer in the northern hemisphere but winter in the southern hemisphere. Alternatively, when the axis points away from the sun from December to March, the southern hemisphere enjoys the direct rays of the sun during their summer months.
Without the tilt of the earth’s axis, we would have no seasons. The sun’s rays would be directly overhead of the equator all year long. Only a slight change would occur as the earth makes its slightly elliptical orbit around the sun. The earth is furthest from the sun about July 3; this point is known as the aphelion and the earth is 94,555,000 miles away from the sun. The perihelion takes place about January 4 when the earth is a mere 91,445,000 miles from the sun.
When summer occurs in a hemisphere, it is due to that hemisphere receiving more direct rays of the sun than the opposite hemisphere where it is winter. In winter, the sun’s energy hits the earth at oblique angles and is thus less concentrated.
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