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Keywords: analemma, Hercules, solstice
![Ореол вокруг Солнца во время Зимнего солнцестояния](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/03/06/0001239421/solsticehalo_appleton_big.preview.jpg)
14.01.2002
Sometimes it looks like the Sun is being viewed through a large lens. In the above case, however, there are actually millions of lenses: ice crystals. As water freezes in the upper atmosphere, small, flat, six-sided, ice crystals might be formed.
![Аналемма-2010](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/12/31/0001248947/analemma2010_ladanyi_c.preview.jpg)
31.12.2010
Looking back on the year, have you wondered where the Sun was in the sky each day during 2010 at exacty 9am UT? Of course you have. Search no further for the answer! It was somewhere along this celestial figure 8 curve known as an analemma.
![Лунная аналемма](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/07/13/0001207221/LunarAnalemma_richins_c72.preview.jpg)
13.07.2005
An analemma is that figure-8 curve you get when you mark the position of the Sun at the same time each day for one year. But the trick to imaging an analemma...
![Виды Солнца с аппарата "Стерео-А"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/12/22/0001218914/sun4_stereoahead_cc720.preview.jpg)
22.12.2006
On December 22nd, at 0022 Universal Time the Sun reached its southernmost point in Earth's sky marking the final season change for the year 2006. In celebration of the Solstice, consider these images of the Sun from an extreme ultraviolet telescope onboard the Stereo Ahead spacecraft.
![Солярография: от солнцестояния к солнцестоянию](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/08/04/0001235724/solsolargraph_zapior850.preview.jpg)
26.06.2009
This six month long exposure compresses the time from solstice to solstice (~ December 21, 2008 to June 20, 2009) into a single point of view. Dubbed a solargraph, the unconventional picture was recorded with a pinhole camera made from an aluminum can lined with a piece of photographic paper.
![Солнцестояние и затмение сезона](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163964/eclipse_gauthier_c.preview.jpg)
21.12.2000
Today the Sun reaches its southernmost point in planet Earth's sky at 13:37 UT. This celestial event is known as a solstice, marking the beginning of Summer in the Southern Hemisphere and Winter in the North.
![Восход Солнца в разные времена года](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/12/21/0001210503/sunrisebyseason_ayiomamitis.preview.jpg)
21.12.2005
Does the Sun always rise in the same direction? No. As the seasons change, the direction toward the rising Sun will change, too. The Sun will always rise and set furthest to the south during the day of Winter Solstice, and furthest to the north during Summer Solstice.
![Частное затмение, облачный день](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/06/0001199814/parteclipse_richard.preview.jpg)
21.12.2001
Welcome to the December Solstice, first day of winter in the north and summer in the southern hemisphere of planet Earth. Today the Sun reaches its southernmost declination in the sky at 19:21 Universal Time.
![Луна в перигее и апогее](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/11/11/0001217596/twomoon.preview.jpg)
22.12.1999
Tonight, those blessed with clear skies can enjoy a glorious full moon, the last full moon of the "Y1.9K"s. In fact, tonight's moon will be a full-perigee-solstice moon, reaching its full phase and perigee (the closest point in its orbit) on the solstice, the first day of northern hemisphere winter.
![Заход солнца в Зимбабве](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/06/21/0001177474/zimsun_alexander.preview.jpg)
21.06.2002
Today's scheduled geocentric astronomical event is the Solstice, with the Sun reaching its northernmost declination at 13 hours 24 minutes Universal Time. For denizens of planet Earth this Solstice marks the begining of Summer in the northern hemisphere and Winter in the south.
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