right ascension
the answer is vernal equinox
Due east
The sunrise is due east on the equinoxes.
The city of Vernal is located in Uintah County which in turn is located in the Northeastern part of Utah. Vernal is about 280km east of Salt Lake City and about 32km East of the Colorado border. Vernal's economy is based on extracting natural resources such as petroleum, phosphate and natural gas.
The coordinate equivalents on the celestial sphere are right ascension (RA) and declination (Dec). Right ascension is analogous to longitude, measured in hours, minutes, and seconds, indicating an object's position east or west of the vernal equinox. Declination is similar to latitude, measured in degrees north or south of the celestial equator, determining an object's angular distance from it. Together, these coordinates allow precise locating of celestial objects in the sky.
The driving distance from Vernal, UT 84078, USA to Casper, WY, USA is 334.9mi / 538.98kmTake U.S. 191 NORTH, from Vernal, to I-80 EAST to ROCK SPRINGS, in WYOMING.Take I-80 EAST to U.S. 287 NORTH at EXIT 211 in Rawlins.Take U.S. 287 NORTH to WYO-220 EAST to CASPER.Take WYO-220 EAST to Casper.
The address of the Uintah County Library is: 155 East Main Street, Vernal, 84078 2695
The solar term that begins when the Sun lies between the celestial longitude of 135 and 150 is Liquid. It is the 13th solar term of the traditional East Asian calendars.
The vernal equinox is the beginning of spring, a day important in many cultures as it marked the beginning of spring. The Sphinx faces East where the Sun rises on the day of the vernal equinox (21 March). Currently vernal equinox is in the constellation of Pisces the Fish. The precession of the equinoxes takes about 25,000 years to go through all of the constellations. The vernal equinox 10,500 BC was the constellation Leo - the Lion. Professor of geology Robert M. Schoch found geological evidence to suggest that the deep erosion patterns at the base of the Sphinx were caused by water and not by wind and sand erosion as was commonly believed. Professor Schoch’s conclusions suggested that the Sphinx dated at least 9000 B.C - 10,000 BC when Egypt had long rainy periods after the end of the last Ice Age. However, upon further research, it was found that the most important day in ancient Egypt was the summer solstice, not the vernal equinox. Why? The annual flooding of the Nile occurs shortly after the summer solstice. In fact, the ancient Egyptians divided their calendar into three seasons: flood, seed, and harvest. Four seasons are marked by summer solstice (longest day), winter solstice (shortest day), spring equinox(midway between summer and winter solstices, and autumnal equinox. Four seasons do not mesh with three, therefore, spring equinox was probably not even used (feel free to modify). Finally, the precession of the equinoxes puts Leo at summer solstice just before sunrise when Ra (sun) replaced Leo in the sky about 4000 B.C. not 10,500 B.C., 6000 years ago - not 12,500. Carbon dating of materials found in the cracks of the Sphinx showed an age of about 5000 years. I find this not to be inconsistent as a new sphinx would be unlikely to have cracks to put things in.3,500 years old
From Salt Lake City proceed east on I-80 to U.S. 40 and continue east on U.S. 40 to Vernal, Utah. Distance: 175 miles - 3 hours 30 minute drive time
328 miles down U.S. 40 EAST.
It is rarely exactly 24 hours between one sunrise and the next sunrise. Depending on where you are on earth, for example, the length of a day differs from the length of the next day by a few minutes -- at the Equator, to several months -- at the poles. In the northern hemisphere, winter days are shorter than summer days. Incrementally, day by day throughout the fall, for example, the sun comes up a little later one day from the day just past (also, the sun sets a little earlier).