Solstice in a sentence

Solstice celebrations seeAlso Summer Solstice Sunrise over Stonehenge The term solstice can also be used in a wider sense, as the date (day) that such a passage happens.

I think “-tide” was particularly appropriate because if the Summer Solstice is the hightide of light, and therefore, of life, in our part of the world, then the Winter Solstice is certainly the low-tide.

The winter solstice came to symbolize the birth of the false messiah, and structures like New Grange in Ireland are aligned with the sun on the winter solstice.

At noon on the winter solstice the sun stands at 9 cubits and the longest day on the summer solstice is 16 hours at the baseline through Celtica.

At the summer solstice a dagger can be seen through the heart of the spiral; at the winter solstice two daggers appear to either side of it.

Based partly on data taken from Pytheas, Hipparchus correlated cubits of the sun's elevation at noon on the winter solstice, latitudes in hours of a day on the summer solstice, and distances between latitudes in stadia for some locations.

Each planet has two in the course of its orbit; when one hemisphere has its summer solstice, when its day is longest, the other has its winter solstice, when its day is shortest.

On this day the Summer solstice may occur in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Winter solstice may occur in the Southern Hemisphere.

Outside of the tropics, the maximum elevation occurs at the summer solstice and the minimum at the winter solstice.

The days are longer around the summer solstice and shorter around the winter solstice.

The Latinate names estival solstice (summer) and hibernal solstice (winter) are sometimes used to the same effect, citation as are midsummer and midwinter.

The year beginning of Zhou 's calendar (Zh) is the day with dark moon before the winter solstice, and the epoch is the Winter Solstice of a Dīngyǒu year.

Those accuracy issues render it impossible to determine the solstice day based on observations made within the 3 (or even 5) days surrounding the solstice without the use of more complex tools.

Thus at the summer solstice the ecliptic is 67 (degrees) and a fraction away from the pole, while at the winter solstice it is 115 (degrees) and a fraction away.

As for the ghost of Solstice past—what an inspiration!

Both twins have made appearances in as NPCs (non-player characters); in the case of the Vax, the Champion of the Matron of Ravens showed up to save his lover Keyleth during the events of the Apogee Solstice.

Christmas is celebrated by most modern Christians just four days after the winter solstice.

Dating back over 5,000 years, Newgrange is aligned with the rising sun on the winter solstice.

Here’s everything you need to know about the summer solstice.

He stopped filming on Winter Solstice 2021: a year that UN Secretary-General António Guterres, said was “make or break” for humanity to confront the climate crisis.