View Summer Solstice Diagram Pics

View Summer Solstice Diagram Pics. When it is tilted away from the sun, it is winter in the northern hemisphere. Nasa shared a diagram explaining the summer solstice and the december solstice.

These diagrams all map the sky dome over either a rectangular chart (orthographic) or circular chart (polar), differing only in the location of the zenith point and the trigonometric relationship of each axis.

The summer solstice occurs when the sun is directly over the tropic of cancer, which is located at 23.5° latitude north, and runs through mexico, the bahamas, egypt, saudi arabia, india, and southern china. Now the situation in tucson on the summer solstice compared to the equinoxes. Summer solstice is occurring today — the longest day of the summer season in the northern hemisphere when the sun. One of the world's oldest evidence of the summer solstice's importance in culture is stonehenge in england, a megalithic structure which clearly marks the moment of the june solstice.