Anywhere around the equator, the days and nights are always about equal.
Outdoors, at night, under clear skies, on a mountaintop near the equator is. The thing about the equator is that ALL constellations are visible from there.
Summer solstice
I guess I thing because you can't touch the night and a place you can touch it
days are almost exactly as long as nights
Yes... it does.(See the Related question for exact information regarding 2010.)
In all parts of the world, in December and July occur soltices and in march and September, equinoxes.
Any place on earth that lie on the equator will have equal day and night time.
Long Day's journey into Night
The usual answer is at the March (vernal equinox) and September (autumnal equinox). However this is not really true. Do to effects like refraction, the sun seams to rise earlier and set later than simple geometry would dictate. Thus if you check any almanac, you will see that there are several minutes more of day than night on the equinox days. The actual day of equal day and night would be several days before the March equinox and after the September equinox. The exact day depending on your lattitude. For more details see - http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/equinoxes.php
The latitude of a place is the angle from the Earth's equator north or south to that place.
Places that are close to the equator do not experience much change in the amount of daylight and darkness there is throughout the year. So while the solstices are happening in those parts of the world, they do not experience any major differences. The further you get from the equator and the closer you get to the poles, the more noticeable the effect of a solstice is.
That would be the equator.
The summer solstice has the longest day and the shortest night of the year. The winter solstice has the shortest day and the longest night of the year.
Outdoors, at night, under clear skies, on a mountaintop near the equator is. The thing about the equator is that ALL constellations are visible from there.
The farthest place north of the equator from the equator is the North Pole.
There is no latitude on earth at which the sun would be directly overhead at noon on the equinox and the solstice.
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