Now the days will become shorter, and nights are longer / News of the Society of Krasnoyarsk and the Krasnoyarsk Territory / Newslab.ru
September 23 8:36
In the northern hemisphere of the Earth, astronomical autumn has come, from this moment the duration of the nights will quickly increase.
September 22 at 21:19 Moscow time, the daylight, moving along the ecliptic, crossed the heavenly equator and passed from the Northern Hemisphere to South.
“The autumn equinox equalizes the duration of the day and night on the whole earth. After the transition of the sun to the southern hemisphere of the heavenly sphere, the night in the northern hemisphere of the Earth becomes longer than the day, the astronomical autumn occurs, and in the southern hemisphere of the Earth, the nights become shorter, there is an astronomical spring, ”the Moscow Planetarium explained.
The daylight hours will reach its minimum on December 21, then the reverse process will begin and the sun will shine longer. On the 20th of March 2026, the day of the spring equinoxes to come- Day and night are equal and the day will begin to add more and more.
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