Astro-Event of the Week, June 17th-24th 2008
June 16, 2008 by David Dickinson
Filed under Weekly Astro-events
The Summer Solstice: time to set those sun dials!
This week marks the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere, a yearly event in which the sun pauses at its farthest passage north as seen from the Earth and begins its long trek south. This is not a spectacular observational event, and the summer solstice itself only [...]
