Other nottable Sun events this year June Solstice "longest day": Fri Jun 20, 10:42 PM, Sun is above the horizon for 14 hours 35 minutes 26 seconds Latest sunset: Sat Jun 28, 08:34 PM ...

On this date, the Sun appears to sit directly above Earth’s Tropic of Cancer, which marks 23.5° latitude north. Also on the summer solstice, our daytime star appears highest overhead at local noon.

The crescent moon will be visible 20 degrees above the western horizon at sunset on July 28, with Mars appearing as a bright point of light roughly four degrees to its upper right. Both Mars and ...

Though there are more northerly towns, Fortuna claims the latest sunset because it sits on the west edge of its time zone. In darkest winter, the sun rises there at 8:48 a.m.

The point at which Mercury appears most distant from the sun in Earth's sky, known as its point of greatest elongation, will occur at 00:37 a.m. EDT (0437 GMT) on July 4, according to stargazing ...

But this also means that if you take a picture of the sun at noon every single day, the sun is going to move around the sky. It ends up tracing out this figure-8 shape, known as an analemma.