{"id":1482,"date":"2013-12-21T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2013-12-17T19:49:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T02:49:14","slug":"happy-solstice-summer-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1482","title":{"rendered":"Happy Solstice &#8212; summer is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2013-december-17-24\">The Sky This Week, 2013 December 17 &#8211; 24 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The winter solstice falls on the 21st at 12:11 pm EST.&nbsp; This is the moment when the Sun reaches an ecliptic longitude of 270 degrees, which also happens to be the time when it reaches its most southerly declination.&nbsp; At this moment the Sun stands directly over the Tropic of Capricorn about 500 miles off the west coast of Chile.&nbsp; The day of the solstice is the shortest for residents of the Northern Hemisphere\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.The duration of daylight on the solstice will be just 9 hours 26 minutes here in Washington.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2013-december-17-24\">The Sky This Week, 2013 December 17 &#8211; 24 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.srh.noaa.gov\/abq\/?n=clifeatures_wintersolstice\">WFO ABQ Winter Solstice Feature<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[W]hile the solstice is the shortest day of the year, with 9 hours and <strong><font style=\"background-color: #ffff00\">47<\/font><\/strong> minutes of daylight in Albuquerque, it is just seconds shorter than days on either side of the solstice.&nbsp; In fact, the U.S. Observatory lists the length of daylight in Albuquerque (in 2013) as 9 hours and 48 minutes from December 16th through 20th and December 22nd through 26th.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.srh.noaa.gov\/abq\/?n=clifeatures_wintersolstice\">WFO ABQ Winter Solstice Feature<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Safe to say Abq is farther south than DC &#8212; we get 21 extra minutes of daylight (plus about 200 days more). I wonder if you can calculate just how much farther south using that time difference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky This Week, 2013 December 17 &#8211; 24 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal The winter solstice falls on the 21st at 12:11 pm EST.&nbsp; This is the moment when the Sun reaches an ecliptic longitude of 270 degrees, which also happens to be the time when it reaches its most southerly declination.&nbsp; At this moment &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1482\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Solstice &#8212; summer is coming<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}