About 23.5 degrees north and south. Note that this is an angle, not a distance.
That's called a solstice.
The 'solstices' are not events and they're not calendar dates. They are thetwo points on the map of the stars that are the farthest north and south ofthe celestial equator that the sun can ever be. The sun reaches those pointsnear June 21 and December 22 of each year,
in the north and south pole
During April, the sun is moving from south to north, heading north.
September 23 and March 21 the poles are equally distant from the sun.
That's called a solstice.
a solstice is the day when the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator.
June 21:Sun at solstice, farthest apparent distance north of terrestrial and celestial equators.December 21:Sun at solstice, farthest apparent distance south of terrestrial and celestial equators.
Summer and winter
June 21:Sun at solstice, farthest apparent distance north of terrestrial and celestial equators.December 21:Sun at solstice, farthest apparent distance south of terrestrial and celestial equators.
Those are the solstices, two per year, when the Sun is at maximum declination.
Those points on the map of the sky are the "solstices".
Those points on the map of the sky are the "solstices".
The points where the sun reaches the greatest distance north or south of the equator are called The Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. At one time the sun was in those constellations when it reached those points. It has shifted due to precession of the poles. It will be back in them in about 20,000 years.
Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice respectively.
About 23.5 degrees north of it on June 21, and about 23.5 degrees south of it on December 22.
The solstices. One of them is in June and the other in December, usually on the 21st of the month.