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vernal equinox
Depending on where you live, the last full day of winter, 2012 will be either March 19, March 20, September 22 or September 23. Winter ends at the moment of the earth's orbit when the hemisphere that you are in goes from being tilted away from the sun to being tilted toward the sun. The sun will be directly of the equator at 5:14 AM UTC on March 20. Until that time, the sun will be over the southern hemisphere, and after that time it will be over the northern hemisphere. The sun will be directly over the equator again at 2:29 PM UTC on September 22, after which it will again be over the southern hemisphere.
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The Earth's axis IS at right angles to the sun's rays at the time of the March and September equinoxes. If the Earth's axis were also perpendicular to the ecliptic plane, then it would be at right angles to the sun's rays ALL the time. In that case ... -- There wouldn't be any seasons. Each area of the earth would keep its own climate all year long. -- There would be 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night, all year and at all latitudes.
March 20 or March 21, depending on where you live The time when the sun crossed directly over the equator was 03:52 UTC on March 21.
The "zero" or reference for right ascension in the sky is the meridian that joins the north and south poles of the sky and passes through the vernal equinox ... that's the point where the sun crosses the celestial equator moving north, on March 21.
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March 5, 2012
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That completely depends on the date, since the sun itself moves through all values of RA in the course of a year, and our clocks refer to the sun.
The time in March 2012 when the sun passes directly over the equator is Tuesday, March 20 at 05:14 (5:14 AM) UTC.
At First Quarter or Last Quarter, the moon is at 'quadrature', nominally a quarterof the sky away from the sun. So the difference in their right ascensions will beroughly 6hours in both cases.
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