Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Day: 20 March 2018

  • The vernal equinox

    The vernal equinox

    Today is the vernal or spring equinox, the astronomical start of spring when the length of day and night are equal. The word equinox, in fact, comes from the Latin meaning equal night. Astronomically, the equinox occurs when the sun crosses the celestial equator, an imaginary line in the sky above the Earth’s equator, which…