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Old 28-August-2003, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Eta C
No Richard, that page is just plain wrong. The position of the winter solstice (the farthest point south the sun reaches in the sky) also happens to be the place where the ecliptic (which represents the sun's path across the sky) crosses the galactic equator.
No, the equinoxes are when the sun crosses the celestial equator.