Aestival Solstice
The Aestival solstice is today June 20, 2008 at 1958 EDT tonight. During the Aestival solstice the sun appears to be directly overhead at noon for places situated at latitude 23.44 north. During the Aestival solstice places situated at latitude 66.56 north, the arctic circle, will see the sun just above the horizon at midnight, and all points north of it will see the sun above the horizon for all 24 hours.
So to all you witches, pagans, warlocks, smelly hippies, whackos, neo-druids, phish fans and general wierdos the only thing special about this day is that today is the maximum inclination of earth’s rotational axis with respect to inertial space, thus the sun.
You mean earth doesn’t revolve around Big Brother? *sigh*
Us oirish never get any cool cosmic effects apart from the odd few that we’re very skeptical of because it’s so damn cloudy.
Your astronomy updates rule. Keep ‘em coming.
And what do you know, I missed it completely – mostly, I guess because it’s cold, wet, raining and the middle of winter down here.
You forgot Liberals.