International Day of the Celebration of the Solstice:
Scope of this Meet:
People arrived at the spot to see sunrise directly behind the largest
stone at the World Heritage site in southwest England.
This event was happen and also live-streamed by English Heritage,
running the site.
To witness the Summer Solstice, people saw the sun glint over the
horizon at around 4.49 am local time.
Tourists were allowed to meet at the ancient stone circle, for the first
time in three years, to celebrate the summer solstice.
On the summer solstice day, Earth’s tilt position is maximum from the
Sun.
The summer solstice is also called midsummer or festival solstice. It
comes when one of the poles of Earth has its maximum tilt toward the Sun. This
phenomenon happens two times a year, once in each of the Northern hemisphere
and Southern hemispheres. For the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice
happens when the sun reaches its highest position in the sky. It is the day
with the longest period of daylight. During the summer solstice, there is
continuous daylight within the Arctic circle (for the northern hemisphere) or
the Antarctic circle (for the southern hemisphere). Earth’s maximum axial tilt
towards the Sun is 23.44 degrees, on the summer solstice.
