On Saturday, Sept. 23, 2006, 4:03.4 UT, the sun crosses the celestial equator, from north to south; this marks the beginning of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere.
At the autumnal equinox the sun is above the equator, and night and day are of equal length
The Sun enters the zodiac sign of Libra at 4:03 UT.

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Leaf raking will start on Sunday, Sept. 24.

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For me, that is just after midnight Friday night. My daughter wants to stay up for it. I'm not sure I'm going to be awake for it.

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Spring equinox, you mean...

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OK, the Sun is entering Libra, and the season is changing.

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I use the autumnal equinox to have students find east and west in their house (or lawn). Find a window blind on east side of house, and wherever it casts its light at sunrise on Sept. 23 is due west.

I like simple demonstrations of astronomical events, people remember these things for years.

In local news, it snowed in the hills around the house yesterday. 6 days before it was 90 degrees F. What is this Autumn I keep hearing about? Is that like somethign that comes between summer and winter?

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A Geek will think he can use that to pick up a girl in a bar.
A Dork knows he can't pick up the girl with it, but will hang around for hours anyway, just in case she asks.
She might. You never know.

I remember autumn. It's a season that seems to be confined to the coasts.

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You can't take the sky from me.

Is this the time of year when you can balance an egg on its side?

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"If a tree is cut down in the rainforest, and is used to make paper to print a book, and the book is really bad, and there's nobody that will read it, do you still hear a sucking sound?"
Charlie in Dayton, A.AsC.

The relevance of the historic Jantar Mantar Observatory here will once again come to the fore as Nehru Planetarium in association with Park Hotel and the Archaeological Survey of India organises a public event in the Capital this Saturday -- which happens to be Equinox Day -- to check out the calibration markings on the grand old monument.

A panel of experts from the academic community will be present to give their advice on the future directions to be taken for restoration of the Jantar Mantar Observatory.

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Position: 28°37'35.76"N. Longitude: 77°13'0.07"E.

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