... We call that the summer solstice , with apologies to those in the southern ... why it is that the if the summer solstice is the longest day of the year, why is it ... the Sun in a circle, then the summer solstice would have the earliest/latest sunrise ...
... the Earth's axis points away, you get winter (from the diagram above you can see that the north end of the Earth's axis never points directly at the Sun, but on the summer solstice it points as close as it can, and on the winter solstice as far as it can ...
... Incidentally, in the northern hemisphere, the time of perihelion for the Earth is very close in time to the winter solstice. ... In the southern hemisphere, perihelion is very close in time to the summer solstice. ...
... Guess what? I don't think so . June 20, 2004 . Happy Solstice Day! ... hemisphere, this marks the Summer Solstice (what some people mistakenly call the ... Well, it's the summer solstice everywhere, but for people in the southern hemisphere ...