Celebrating the Equinox by Heather Higham

The autumnal equinox takes place tonight at 8:04 pm. NASA urges us to Embrace the Equinox, sharing that the word “equinox” originates from Latin, and translates to equal (equi-) night (-nox):

The equinox marks the exact moment when the center of the Sun crosses the plane of our planet’s equator. The day of an equinox, observers at the equator will see the Sun directly overhead at noon. After the March equinox, observers anywhere on Earth will see the Sun’s path in the sky continue its movement further north every day until the June solstice, after which it begins traveling south. The Sun crosses the equatorial plane again during the September equinox, and continues traveling south until the December solstice, when it heads back north once again. This movement is why some refer to the March equinox as the northward equinox and the September equinox as the southward equinox.

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Lots more in the equinox archive on Michigan in Pictures.