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What is an enquinox?
An equinox is the moment when the Sun is directly over the Earth's equator, and the apparent position of the Sun at that moment. Daylight savings follows the equinox.
When is the sun completally over Earth's axis?
It is completely over the axis when we have an equinox. Like the Fall and Spring equinox's.
Where does the sun shine directly overhead on September twenty first?
It is called the Equinox. It is when both axis of the world are facing away from the sun. The sun's plane then is directly over the Equator. It happens twice a year, there is the September Equinox and the March Equinox.
On what date does the sun appear directly over the equator?
On the equator, the sun always seems very high at mid-day. But the sun is precisely over the equator only two moments in the year, the moment of the Vernal Equinox (Spring) and the moment of the Autumnal Equinox (Fall).
Mark the days when the sun appears directly overhead at the Equator?
The Sun, in its seasonal apparent movement across the sky, passes directly over the Equator twice each year, at the March and September equinoxes. At the Equator, the rays of the sun are perpendicular to the surface of the earth on these dates.Places on the Equator experience the quickest rates of sunrise and sunset in the world. They are also the only places in the world where the sun can go directly from the zenithto the nadir and from the nadir to the zenith. Such places also have a theoretical constant 12 hours of day and night throughout the year, though in practice there are variations of a few minutes due to the effects of atmospheric refraction and because sunrise and sunset are measured from the time that the edge of the Sun's disk is on the horizon, rather than the center of the disk.
What part of the earth is directly over the sun during equinox?
Equator.
What is it when the sun is directly over earth's equator?
The equinox.
When is the spring?
The spring equinox or the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere is in March. It is the time of the year when the Sun crosses directly over the Earth's equator.
What is an enquinox?
An equinox is the moment when the Sun is directly over the Earth's equator, and the apparent position of the Sun at that moment. Daylight savings follows the equinox.
What is enquinox?
An equinox is the moment when the Sun is directly over the Earth's equator, and the apparent position of the Sun at that moment. Daylight savings follows the equinox.
On what line of latitude is the sun directly over at the Spring and Autumn Equinox?
At the Spring and Autumn Equinox, the sun is directly over the equator which is at 0 degrees latitude.
During the autumnal equinox what does the sun do?
The Sun doesn't do anything at such. The Autumnal equinox is more down to the position of the Earth on its orbit of the Sun. The sun is directly over the equator and the amount of daylight and darkness is about equal around the world.
When is the spring equninox?
The spring equinox or the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere is in March. It is the time of the year when the Sun crosses directly over the Earth's equator.
Does a equinox have sun rays that shine directly over head?
The sun's rays are always directly overhead somewhere on earth. Twice a year,at the moment of each equinox, that place is somewhere on the equator.
An equinox occurs when?
There is an equinox in the spring called the vernal equinox, and one in the fall called the autumnal equinox. They happen at the moment that the center of the sun is in the earth's equatorial plane. In other words, they occur at the moments when the sun passes directly over the equator.
Is it true that during the summer equinox the sun is directly over the equator?
No. For one thing there is no such thing as a "summer equinox." We have the vernal (spring) and autumnal (fall) equinoxes and the winter and summer solstices. At the summer solstice for the northern hemisphere the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer. At the summer solstice for the southern hemisphere (winter for the northern hemisphere) the sun is over the Tropic of Capricorn. The sun is directly over the equator at each equinox.
When the sun passes directly over the equator that is a?
equinox
