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Old March 22nd 16, 08:40 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
oriel36[_2_]
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Default Sunset at the South pole

On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 7:20:13 PM UTC, palsing wrote:

On August 1st 2016, at 8:04 A.M., Astronomical Twilight starts again, and the entire process reverses itself, ending at 11:04 P.M. on September 20th, when the Sun (or at least a little piece of it) is once again up all day!

Of course, you already knew this, right?


I am not dealing with you from now on.

The reason that the Sun is absent from view at either pole for 6 months is due to a distinct rotation arising from the orbital behavior of the Earth.

In a fundamentalist regime this great event that happened today is ignored as is the rotational cause behind it.