Autumnal Equinox News

Born as Louise Stephania on the autumnal equinox of 1917, in Breezy Hill, Kan., Lucy Hamisak died as she lived on November 11, 2009, exhibiting reticence, strength and patience.

Make sure to look up at the night sky while trick-or-treating this year, and you will get a glimpse of the very origins of the holiday.

The Universe recently had a birthday, according to the Ussher Chronology . Ussher deduced that the first day of creation began at nightfall preceding Sunday October 23, 4004 BC, in the proleptic Julian calendar, near the autumnal equinox.

The autumnal equinox happened a couple of weeks ago, marking the beginning of fall and the official end of the gardening year.

A MILD Christmas is in store in the Harborough area, according to Little Bowden amateur weather forecaster Joyce Dunkley.

If you like astronomy, here's a very simple event that you can see without special instruments, even if you are in a city: The harvest moon.

This weekend's full Moon has a special name: Harvest Moon. It's the full moon closest to the northern autumnal equinox .

This weekend it is time to go and harvest the crops because the moon is the closest to the northern autumnal equinox.

BY JACK CROSSWELL A morning fog draped itself across over the landscape, obscuring the morning sun trying to rise in the east.

September, with its azure skies, its misty dawns and mellow afternoons, has slipped away past the boundaries of time into the hidden country of remembrance, leaving behind an afterglow that lingers on the summit of the hills and a subtle fragrance carried on the breath of the evening breeze.

Dot Harrison is not one bit superstitious like her mother was. However, she has an overactive curiosity and that's what prompted her to test the belief that during the fall equinox a broom will stand alone.

Now that the Autumnal Equinox has sent the golden orb into the western sea, it must be getting close to time for the big Cambria Oktoberfest, which is held at the Vet's Hall this year on Oct.

Old Sol didn't show for Tuesday morning's celebration of the fall equinox at the new Sun Circle at Preston Beach.

Today, at 5:18 pm the sun will be directly, vertically overhead a point on the equator.

Today is the Autumn Equinox, and it marks the second of three observances dedicated to the harvest, the other two being the earlier Lughnasadh on August 1 and Samhain which follows on October 31.

It's the first day of Autumn, when day and night are equal, before the "fall" of the Sun this time of year.

This year the beginning of fall is at precisely 5:18 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time today.

While many consider Labor Day to be the end of summer, in reality, it's somewhere around the 21st or 22nd of September.

NEW SUNSPOTS: In a year when the sun has been utterly blank 80% of the time, the sudden emergence of two large sunspots in a single day is a noteworthy event.

Yesterday marked the autumnal equinox ... did you notice? The date is the official beginning of fall but didn't bring a definitive change in seasons.