This is the ecliptic. The Sun crosses the celestial equator twice each year at the March and September equinoxes. The Sun’s highest point, 23½° above the celestial equator, occurs at the June ...

From mid-northern latitudes, the June 2025 Full Moon will really skim the treetops to the south… while 'north of the 60' in ...

It’s the intersection of the celestial equator with the ecliptic, the sun’s path across the sky as it moves relative to the fixed stars (because of our changing perspective on it as Earth ...

Because of that, the sun’s path among the backdrop of stars, known as the ecliptic, is inclined to the celestial equator by that same 23.5 degrees. The celestial equator is just a projection in ...

The zodiac was initially developed around 600 BCE and its zero point was defined as the point that the ecliptic intersected with the celestial equator — the great circle of the terrestrial ...

In special years this tilt adds to the ecliptic's own inclination and ... from about 28.5 degrees north of the celestial equator to 28.5 degrees south. In contrast, during 2016-16 the lunar ...

Thus, the sun will then be directly over a specific point on the Earth's equator moving northward. In the sky, it's where the ecliptic and celestial equator cross each other. In addition ...

At 9.01am today, March 20th, the sun crossed the Earth’s equator, marking the vernal equinox, the date when the direction of sunrise is due east and sunset due west. The Earth’s axis is at ...