The Summer Solstice is at 5:58 PDT today. Today is the longest day of the year. Time to boogie!!!!!

 

Woogie!!!!!

 

DUDE its not till tommodow! Oh and its also ALEX'S B-day (MY ALEX)

 

WRONG -- it's today. My Astronomy calendar in my bathroom doesn't lie. It's a common misconception that Spring always beging on June 21. It doesn't.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Raptor
WRONG -- it's today.

 

We have DEFINATE Summer weather though its been AWESOME 85 and sunny the last few days! Feels like Cali!

 

Tomorrow misses out on the longest day of the year by two minutes. It's the longest day of the year in the other US time zones. Summer always starts at the exact moment of the Summer Solstice, one of two points in the ecliptic (the great circle of the celestial sphere that is the apparent path of the sun among the stars or of the earth as seem from the sun; the imaginary plane that defines the earth's orbit around the sun extended to meet the celestial sphere) -- the other being the Winter Solstice -- at which it's distance from the celestial equator it the greatest.

 

I'm out with my scope tonight.

 

What do you have, John? I have a Meade 8" LX200. I'll have it out on our deck for screwing around at the BBQ.

 

I have a basic 4" refractor by Bushnell. It doesn't track but it finds. I take it over to the park occasionally.

I've been a long time bino skywatcher and only recently got the Bushnell to see if I'd use it.

I'd love a big Meade like your's but again... don't know if I'd actually use it.

I've been pouring over my astronomy books this morning taking notes as to what i want to check out tonight.