22 September 2025
As we speak the autumnal equinox will happen at 2:19pm Japanese Daylight Time (6:19pm UTC) in the mean time when the solar crosses the equator heading southward. From outer house precisely half the globe is lit north-to-south as proven on this NOAA GOES 16 climate satellite tv for pc picture from 2022. (Discover Hurricane Ian spinning within the Atlantic on this picture.)
Solstice and equinox have been a giant deal in historic cultures. The Chaco Tradition Nationwide Historic Park in New Mexico, constructed by Hopi and Pueblo peoples between AD 900 and 1150, has many buildings that align with astronomical occasions together with the equinox dawn, pictured at prime, which attracts guests to see it.
Fashionable buildings typically align with the equinox sundown, although unintentionally, as a result of the streets are constructed east-west. This stacked and cropped picture of the equinox sundown view on Chicago’s 53rd Road is usually referred to as “Chicagohenge.”
Once we lived in Greenfield we skilled the identical impact. The carefully spaced homes on my road confronted due west (uncommon in Pittsburgh!) and lined up in order that the rays of sundown on the equinox fell immediately between the buildings with out touching the aspect partitions of the homes.
Do you may have a favourite place to notice the equinox? As we speak’s the day to look at it at sundown.
