{"id":25443,"date":"2019-09-22T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=25443"},"modified":"2018-12-28T21:54:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T07:54:25","slug":"fall-equinox-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=25443","title":{"rendered":"Autumnal Equinox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The fall equinox will occur at 21:50HST today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/CE99-53-12262-DC-e1546066709901-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise over Georgia Strait\" class=\"wp-image-5714\"\/><figcaption>Sunrise over Georgia Strait<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The equinox is defined as the time at which the Sun passes through the plane of the Earth&#8217;s equator.   Until the next spring equinox occurs in 2020, the Sun will be located in the southern hemisphere with a negative declination coordinate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today the length of the day and night will be very near equal, thus the term equinox.  the Sun will rise and set nearly exactly due east and due west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is considered the start of fall for most cultures in the northern hemisphere, or the start of spring for those in the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<table style=\"font-size: 80%; border: 1px solid DimGrey;\" width=\"600\">\n  <tbody>\n    <tr><th style=\"font-size: 120%;\" colspan=\"5\">2019 Apsides and Seasons<\/th><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Event          <\/td><td colspan=\"2\">Universal Time<\/td><td colspan=\"2\">Hawaii Standard Time<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Perihelion     <\/td><td>Jan 03<\/td><td>05:20UT<\/td><td>Jan 02<\/td><td>19:20HST<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Spring Equinox <\/td><td>Mar 20<\/td><td>21:58UT<\/td><td>Mar 20<\/td><td>11:58HST<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Summer Solstice<\/td><td>Jun 21<\/td><td>15:54UT<\/td><td>Jun 21<\/td><td>05:54HST<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Aphelion       <\/td><td>Jul 04<\/td><td>22:11UT<\/td><td>Jul 04<\/td><td>12:11HST<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Fall Equinox   <\/td><td>Sep 23<\/td><td>07:50UT<\/td><td>Sep 22<\/td><td>21:50HST<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td>Winter Solstice<\/td><td>Dec 22<\/td><td>04:19UT<\/td><td>Dec 21<\/td><td>18:19HST<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td colspan=\"5\">Data from <a href=\"https:\/\/aa.usno.navy.mil\/data\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">US Naval Observatory Data Services<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n  <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fall equinox will occur at 21:50HST today. The equinox is defined as the time at which the Sun passes through the plane of the Earth&#8217;s equator. Until the next spring equinox occurs in 2020, the Sun will be located in the southern hemisphere with a negative declination coordinate. Today the length of the day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=25443\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Autumnal Equinox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[1478,120,119],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/CE99-53-12262-DC.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25451,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25443\/revisions\/25451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}