how do you determine when winter solstice and summer solstice begin?

Question

what is the time span between the two solstice?

Answer 1

Its on the calendar, roughly June 21 and Dec 21.

Answer 2

The simplest, and most accurate, way to determine when winter solstice and summer solstice begins is:

Winter solstice begins when the Sun enters the zodiacal constellation of CAPRICORN December 22.

Summer solstice begins when the Sun enters the zodiacal constellation of CANCER June 22.

The date does not change, it's just an illusion, because different time zones are used throughout the world and country.

For example: January 19, 2007 Friday at 11:00 p.m. in Arkansas is already January 20, 2007 Saturday at 12:00 a.m. in Florida.

If it is not on your calendar, or you forget, you can find it in the horoscope section of the daily newspaper.

The time span between the two solstices is a half a year, that is six months.

Answer 3

2007 2007
Perihelion Jan 3 20 Equinoxes Mar 21 00 07 Sept 23 09 51
Aphelion July 7 00 Solstices June 21 18 06 Dec 22 06 08

Answer 4

The Summer Solstice is when the day is the longest it will get, (most sunlight) between June 19th and 21st. Winter Solstice is the exact opposite, when the night is the longest (least sunlight), between December 19th and 21st.
To ancient cultures, Summer Solstice - MidSummer, and Winter Solstice - Yule/ Feast of the Long Night, were both occaisions feast and festival days.

Answer 5

Astronomers have more equipment than we have. Generally, we would work it by noting shadows as they angle increasingly north while the sun moves increasingly south. When the shadow begins to move back south, I know that the Solstice has happened. If I'm very good at this, I might notice that the shadow's movement has stopped, meaning the sun has stopped (which is the meaning of the word "solstice.")
Actually, the sun isn't the issue, but the earth's movement around the sun while tilted at 22.5 degrees. But we are on the earth, so we are limited to describing what we see.

Answer 6

the solstices are only two days a year, when the sun is at its highest point in the sky (as far away from earth as possible.) it happens when the earth tilts in summer and winter and the sun is parallel with the tropics of cancer and capricorn (the two latitudinal lines 20 degrees away from the equator each.) Capricorn is below the equator, when the sun lines up with that (from the earth tilting on its axis,) it's the winter solstice. When it lines up with Cancer, it's the summer solstice. Usually they only vary by days each year, the 20th to the 22nd of its corresponding month

Answer 7

The summer solstice is in December on or close to the 21st. The winter solstice is in June, on or close to the 21st. The vernal equinox is in September and the autumnal equinox is in March.

Thos of you people who are unfortunate enough to live in the northern hemisphere have the seasons reversed.

Answer 8

Winter solstice is December 21st. Summer solstice is June 21st.

March 21st is the Spring Equinox

September 22nd is the Autumnal Equinox

dfirefox obviously doesn't know when the seasons change because that's when the solstices and equinoxes are. DUH!

Answer 9

The winter soltice is in December and the summer soltice is in June, 6 months apart.

A soltice occurs on the day with either the least or most amount of sunlight for the year. This is the day that the sun is positioned directly above one of the tropics.

A soltice occurs because of the tilt of the earth. When the earth is tilted away from the sun, the northern hemisphere gets less light. When its tilted toward the sun, the north gets more light. This is why the soltices are 6 months apart, because they occur halfway through the earth's orbit around the sun.

Answer 10

The calendar is a compelled arbitrary potential of measuring time and staring on the calendar is slightly off the mark. using fact each and every 365 days is 365.25 days (it relatively is why we've bounce 365 days) the calendar does not line up with the equinox and solstice an identical way each and every 365 days till we "reset" the calendar with Feb. twenty 9th. So it does not count on the calendar, it in basic terms relies upon on the place we are in that 4 365 days span.

Answer 11

the summer solstice is on march 21st. and the winter solstice is on december 21st. the winter solstice is when the sun is at it's lowest declination. on the summer soltice, the sun is at a 90 degreee angle to the tropic of cancer, and on the winter soltice, the sun is at a 90 degree angle to the tropic of capricorn.