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Summer and Winter Solstice
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What season in the northern hemisphere when the sun reaches its greatest distance south of the equator?
When the sun is south of the equator, it would be winter in the northern hemisphere.
What are soltices?
Solstice:either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator .
Time of sun's greatest distance from equator?
"Solstices" ... June 21 and December 21.
What season begins in the northern hemisphere when the sun reaches its greatest distance south of the equator?
winter
This occurs when the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator?
That's called a solstice.
What is the definition of soltice?
a solstice is the day when the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator.
What is the point at which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or of the equator?
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.
Time of year when the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of earths equator?
Summer and winter
Which season begins in the northern hemisphere when the sun reaches its greatest distance south of the equator?
That would be "Winter".
What are the names of the times when the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator?
Those are the solstices, two per year, when the Sun is at maximum declination.
What is the term for the point at which the sun reaches it greatest distance north or south of the equator?
Those points on the map of the sky are the "solstices".
What is the term for point at which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator?
Those points on the map of the sky are the "solstices".
