Picture of the Day: Spring Equinox in Chicago

If you’ve seen the images from StoneHenge, where ancient people tracked the path of the seasonal sun, this might stir your celestial soul.

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SPRING EQUINOX IN CHICAGO

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Photograph by niXerKG on Flickr

In this perfectly timed photo we see the setting sun in Chicago during Spring Equinox on 20 March 2014. Taken by Flickr user niXerKG, who dubbed the photo Chicagohenge, he says you can see the setting/rising sun in the streets of Chicago that run east/west.

An equinox occurs twice a year, around 20 March and 22 September. The oldest meaning of equinox is: the day when daytime and night are of approximately equal duration.

An equinox occurs when the plane of Earth’s Equator passes the center of the Sun. At that instant, the tilt of Earth’s axis neither inclines away from nor towards the Sun. The two annual equinoxes are the only times when the subsolar point—the place on Earth’s surface where the center of the Sun is exactly overhead—is on the Equator, and, conversely, the Sun is at…

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1 thought on “Picture of the Day: Spring Equinox in Chicago

  1. Love the energy of this photo! It has such an ethereal quality that contrasts with the physical earth plane of the city. I mostly make nature photos b/c of the spiritual quality it evokes in me, and I’m reminded here that spiritual photography comes in many forms. Really cool.

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