| The Vesica Piscis represents the summer and winter solstices of this cycle. |
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| They aligned their buildings with celestial movements, marking where the sun rose at the summer and winter solstices. |
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| As a result, the actual occurrence of the equinoxes and solstices slowly moved away from their calendar dates. |
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| It also has links to detailed information explaining sunrise, sunset, the solstices and equinoxes. |
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| He explained eclipses, solstices and equinoxes, announced the sphericity of the earth and its diurnal revolution on its axis. |
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| During the year 994 al-Khujandi used the very large instrument to observe a series of meridian transits of the sun near the solstices. |
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| The equinoxes and the solstices happen only on the Cardinal Cross whose significance is known completely only by the adepts of wisdom. |
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| Traditionally, katajjaits were performed during the spring equinox and the winter and summer solstices, or when men were away hunting. |
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| Cassiopeia went through over 100 quarterly issues, named for the solstices and equinoxes, until it was replaced by an electronic version. |
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| On the Equinoxes, the Sun is directly above the equator, while on the solstices the Sun is directly above 23.5 degrees North or South latitude. |
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| The earth also swings from left to right and right to left causing summer and winter solstices while the equinox is the principle of balance. |
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| An exercise with the Earth to be made the days of solstices and equinoxes. |
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| In addition to the solstices, which officially mark the first days of summer and winter, there are also two equinoxes. |
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| They take place at certain times of year like the summer and winner solstices, and at the equinoxes. |
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| This project is concerned with annual daylight saving times, which are considered as two Energy solstices. |
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| The solstices, Yule and Midsummer, are festivals of the God. |
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| Parallel of latitude at 66°34' S that marks the polar zone, where days and nights last 24 hours during solstices. |
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| Long-term changes in the dates of the solstices and equinoxes are caused mainly by tugs imposed on the orientation of the Earth's spin axis by the Moon. |
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| The minimum length of shadow during a day is less in summer than in winter and at the solstices it changes from lengthening to shortening or visa versa. |
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| It is not by chance that the Ancient One's practised their rituals and their festivals at precise times such as sun rise and sun set, the solstices and equinoxes. |
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| According to Ghezzi and Ruggles, the placement of the 13 towers follows the arc of the shifting sun position as it sets and rises over the course of the six months between solstices. |
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| Inca astronomers understood equinoxes, solstices and zenith passages, along with the Venus cycle. |
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| Popular times are pagan festivals, such as Hallowe'en, Beltane, the summer and winter solstices and the autumn and spring equinoxes. |
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| In 2007 archaeological research emerged suggesting that Chankillo had been a solar observatory capable of tracking the solstices and the equinoxes, the oldest of its kind in the Americas. |
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| The most accepted theory about the meaning of the alignments is that the lines of menhirs are orientated in order to face the sunrises during the solstices and equinoxes. |
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| These are the solstices, Sun, the effects of rotation, revolution, and approximately midway between the orientation of the Earth's axis on the path of equinoxes. |
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| The sunrise on the summer solstices aligns with the northernmost tower when viewed from the observation point, and the sunrise aligns with the southernmost tower on the winter solstice. |
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| They consisted of three small structures facing a fourth structure, and were used to mark the solstices and equinoxes. |
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| From the west pyramid, the sun was seen to rise over these temples on the solstices and equinoxes. |
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| In addition, since the Sun moves North and South rather like the movement of a swing, it moves slowly around the solstices and very quickly around the equinoxes. |
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| Stonehenge, for instance, appears to have been constructed in part to observe celestial events like the summer and winter solstices. |
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| The ends of the analemma represent summer and winter, but if we expect the solstices to be exactly at the ends and the equinoxes to be at the crossing point, we'd be wrong. |
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| The ad claims the nuraghi were ancient temple-observatories whose purpose was to indicate the solstices and equinoxes by lining up with the rising sun and moon on those dates. |
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| In the Southern Hemisphere, the situation is reversed, with the summer and winter solstices exchanged and the spring and autumnal equinox dates swapped. |
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