Solstice

Pagan rituals and freezing swims: What is the winter solstice all about? On the shortest day of the year, when the sun dares to visit for only a few short hours ...

Former features and weekender writer for The Daily Advertiser. Small, quiet, and a student of the Julie Bishop School Of Staring. Usually dressed in something colourful, always snacking on something homemade. Friend to most mothers and all dogs. Former features and weekender writer for The Daily Advertiser. Small, quiet, and a student of the Julie Bishop School Of Staring. Usually dressed in something colourful, always snacking on something homemade. Friend to most mothers and all dogs. National videographer, filmmaker, and editor. It's from this tradition that the burning of the Yule log at Christmas comes. Ancient China celebrated the Dongzhi Festival between December 21 and 23. On the summer solstice, the sun reaches its highest point. Pagan druids welcomed Alban Arthan or the 'light of winter' festival. National videographer, filmmaker, and editor. It's the opposite in the northern hemisphere. Each date heralds the official start of a new season.

The summer solstice officially begins at 5:13 a.m. Tuesday on the U.S. East Coast, according to the National Weather Service.

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Today is the longest day of the year and the first day of summer 2022 in the northern hemisphere. Celebrations begun with views of a pre-sunset alignment of ...

In the northern hemisphere, the days will now get shorter and the nights longer, while in the southern hemisphere the days will now get longer and the nights shorter. Exactly the opposite happens in the southern hemisphere, where June’s solstice sees the Sun at its lowest in the sky. The 5,000 years old Neolithic monument is famed for its alignment with the midsummer sunrise.

Druids, pagans and New Age revellers gather in their thousands to watch the sunrise at Stonehenge during the summer solstice for the first time in two ...

"The monument itself, the Stone Circle, is designed so perfectly that at midsummer, when the sun rises, the rays of the sun, they come across the horizon, and they strike precisely straight down the middle of the Stonehenge monument, as precisely as if we had designed it in the 2020s with the most space age instruments available, but this was designed 5,000 years ago." Experts still debate its purpose, but it is aligned so that on summer solstice the sun rises behind the Heel Stone and rays of sunlight are channelled into the centre of the circle, meaning that it is at this time of the year that its purpose can truly be appreciated. - On the solstice, the sun rises behind the Heel Stone and rays of sunlight are channelled into the centre of the circle

More than 2000 people have stripped naked for a sunrise dip in Hobart, marking the winter solstice and end of the Dark Mofo festival.

You feel so good about just being able to drop your gear and get in the water,” she said. The air temperature was below 5C and the water in the low teens. You’ll go in the old you and you’ll come out the new you.

People around the world celebrated the summer solstice today (June 21), as did some satellites in space.

If you want to catch the sun for yourself using skywatching gear, you can get some help for safe solar observing with guides such as how to photograph a solar eclipse safely. Happy #solstice! 🌞Today in the Northern Hemisphere we experience the longest day and shortest night of the year. Some gathered at large monuments to celebrate, while others had more personal touches such as going out to sea solo to see the rising sun. Looking for a telescope for the next planet sight or skywatching event? From space, the European Space Agency's Meteosat captured our planet just hours before the official moment of solstice came. The Southern Hemisphere gets the opposite effect as winter begins.

Those who observed the spectacle at the neolithic Wiltshire monument encountered a chilly morning accompanied by clear skies as the sun glinted over the horizon ...

On the summer solstice, the sun rises behind the Heel Stone, the ancient entrance to the Stone Circle, and rays of sunlight are channelled into the centre of the monument. Stonehenge is a monument built on the alignment of the midsummer sunrise and the midwinter sunset. Thousands of people have greeted the sun with cheers as it rose over Stonehenge for the summer solstice.

It is not unusual to see swimmers entering the cool waters of Binalup-Middleton Beach in Albany at dawn, but they are usually wearing something.

"It's a good celebration to start off the longer and brighter mornings," he said. "It's just usually a dip in the water — and we do the women's swim at 6am and the men's at 6.30am, so never the twain shall meet." The group of men and women meet every morning for a dip in the refreshing Southern Ocean but hold the special nude dip to mark the longest night of the year.

About 6000 people gathered at the ancient stone circle in southern England to watch the sun rise at 4.49am on a clear, crisp morning.

Summer solstices take place as one of the Earth’s poles tilts most closely towards the sun. The sunrise was streamed online in 2020 and 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Many others woke early and made the trip there just to soak up the atmosphere.