The day when your shadow is the shortest depends on where you are on the Earth.
* In the northern hemisphere it is when the sun is the highest in the sky. The day of the Summer Solstice
* .In the Southern Hemisphere it is when the sun is the highest in the sky. The day of the Winter Solstice.
* At the equator the sun is directly overhead and your shadow is at its minimum at each of the equinoxes
local noon (not noon according to the clock)
Shadows are shortest at noon when the sun is directly overhead, creating a smaller angle between the sunlight and the object casting the shadow. As the angle increases in the morning and afternoon, shadows lengthen.
You would expect to find the shortest shadows around noon when the sun is at its highest point in the sky. This is because the angle of the sun's rays are more directly overhead, resulting in shorter shadows.
Yes. Longest day of the year in one hemisphere, and shortest day of the year in the other hemisphere. So our summer solstice on June 21 is the longest day in Europe or America, but the shortest day for the Australians.
The shortest day in Adelaide tends to occur on 21 June each year. This is the winter solstice, and it is the shortest day throughout Australia.
Because it is the shortest day of the year.
In the northern hemisphere the shortest day would be the 21st of December.
shadow will become short when it was xiawu and no shadow at night! haha At noon, when the sun aerial, and shadows is the shortest. When the sun goes down, the shadows change into the longest.
An equinox is not the shortest day. It has the same amount of daylight and darkness. The solstices have the longest and shortest days. The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year in terms of the amount of daylight.
No. It has equal amounts of daylight and darkness. A winter solstice has the least amount of daylight and can be regarded as the shortest day of the year. If your clocks go forward once a year, then that particular day has 23 hours, so that could also be said to be the shortest day of the year.
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Assuming you're referencing daylight; The shortest day of the year is the Winter Solstice, which for 2010 is on December 21st.