What are the features and why at this time the aliens are caught.
Today is the autumnal equinox, a special day: only twice a year the Sun illuminates the entire Earth completely. At the North Pole today, the Sun sets for six months, the long polar night begins. On the South - it rises, for six months there begins a polar day. So it is today that our star illuminates both poles, as well as all polar zones. This only happens during the equinoxes, in March and September. The rest of the time, sadly enough, anyone on our planet is deprived of the sun's rays.
Today we will tell you something unusual about the equinoxes, and even offer simple fun experiments.
Myth: day is equal to night
At the equinox, day is equal to night, isn't it? And the name seems to hint. But not so. Let's look at a special program that counts sunrises, sunsets and day length for every day, for any part of the world. And what is the length of the day for Moscow? 12 hours, 12 minutes and 17, comrades, seconds. And when will it be exactly 12 o'clock? Only September 26th. Why does this happen?
The point is that we look at the Sun through the atmosphere. Our atmosphere is a giant lens, and it refracts the sun's rays, distorts their path. Specifically, at the horizon, the atmosphere lifts the Sun. It actually went down a long time ago, but we still see it. You have already realized that on September 23, we see it for another 6 minutes after the true sunset (and 6 minutes before the true sunrise, for a total of 12 minutes). It's like a mirage of the Sun, but the "mirage" shines fully, the day is not over! And so constantly, not only at the equinox, the day is slightly longer than it should be.
In this regard, I propose to build a funny homemade product. Take a cheap Chinese watch, and instead of a battery, you power it from a photocell. Take this structure outside at night and put the arrows on "midnight". The clock does not run, there is no electricity. The sun came out, illuminated the photocell, the clock went off. In the evening we stopped. And showed you exactly the length of the day. Savvy people will understand how this toy can be improved, but it will work like that.
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Equinox at night?
We are accustomed to the fact that the equinox happens on a certain day, and this is exactly the day. In fact, the equinox is the moment, and the moment can happen even at night. But not this year: the autumn equinox will occur on September 23, at 10 hours 50 minutes 10 seconds Moscow time. What is this equinox?
Take the globe. Here are the poles, here is the equator. Everyone knows what the equator is. Now look at the sky. It is semicircular, and if the Earth had not obscured it, it would be a ball. This is intuitively clear: the sky is all around us, all its points are at an infinite equal distance from us, we are, as it were, in the center of this ball. No wonder they say "heavenly sphere".
So, this sphere has poles, north and south, and between them - the equator, as on a globe. When the sun crosses the equator, an equinox occurs. In March, the Sun moves from the southern hemisphere of the sky to the northern and crosses the equator from bottom to top. In September, on the contrary, from top to bottom. It is clear that the equator is an infinitely thin line, it is also a mathematical abstraction. Therefore, crossing the equator is not a process, but a moment. So it is counted to the nearest second.
Since our calendar does not ideally coincide with the solar movement, for example, we have either 365 days a year, then 366, the equinox also “walks”. For example, in 2017 it took place on September 22 at 23 hours 02 minutes 48 seconds. That is, our night!
Another simple homemade product (simpler than a watch) will allow you to meet the return of the Sun to our hemisphere in March, that is, to fix the moment of the vernal equinox. Take a small board, preferably square. At noon on September 23rd, find a level place and tilt the edge of the board that looks at the Sun until the Sun's rays slide along the surface of the board as if tangentially. Fix this slope, for example, with a brick or other stick. Tomorrow you will be surprised to see that the Sun no longer illuminates the tablet in any way. What happened? You have placed the piece of wood directly in the plane of the celestial equator. The sun has gone into the southern hemisphere, and it no longer sees the top of the piece of wood. When will he see? When he returns, that is, on the day of the vernal equinox. At the end of March, you will suddenly notice that the plane of your device is again slightly illuminated. Hooray,The sun has returned to us!
How the zodiac shines
The Equinox is a great occasion to watch the zodiac glow. Does it glow? Let's tell.
Everyone, at least for the sake of curiosity, read horoscopes and knows Leo, Libra, Aries and other signs of the Zodiac. Few can find these constellations in the sky, because Pisces, for example, are very dim, and in general, in the sky to get confused out of habit as there is nothing to do. But did you know that in fact the zodiac glows, only dimly, and just near the equinox it can be seen?
What is the Zodiac? This is the plane in which planets revolve around the Sun, for example, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, and so on. But, apart from them, there is a mass of dust in this plane. The planets essentially revolve in a giant dust disk. Where is she from there? Good question. They say comets are losing. The sun illuminates this dust, and, looking from the Earth, you see a faint pearl streak running across the entire Zodiac.
To see, you have to go to the dacha. Get up an hour before sunrise. Look east. And you will see that from the point of the future rise upward, slightly obliquely, the glow sharashitsya. It can be seen better from anywhere from Sochi than from Arkhangelsk, but I saw it from anywhere, but precisely during the equinoxes, because the Zodiac is conveniently located. If you're lucky (you're in the south, it's dark around) you will see the entire zodiac shine. Sit down, study the signs, the "laser pointer" of nature will illuminate beauty, as in a planetarium.
A couple of nuances: the zodiacal light is observed in the evening, after sunset in March, and in the morning, before sunrise, in September. Too lazy to get up in the morning - wait until March. If you can't see with your eyes, take a photo with a long exposure, the zodiac light will work better in the photo.
Time to catch aliens
During the autumnal equinox, a phenomenon such as a radio echo, which is associated with aliens, is exacerbated (just don't joke about this). If you send a radio signal from Earth into the white light, like a pretty penny, it will soon return to you. Either it was reflected from something, or someone sits like a repeater, and you return your signals. The picture is terribly confusing, the return time of the signal changes all the time, and in the 1960s, some decided that it was aliens who sent an automatic probe to us, and it is playing with us like that. They even thought that the signal delay time is a code, they began to decipher it, but all the researchers did it differently.
This phenomenon, the "world echo", intensifies at the moments of the equinoxes. Its cause is most likely natural, but we do not yet know exactly what. If you have an amateur radio license, give it a try. The impression is some kind of majestic and eerie, goosebumps run. Are they really aliens?
EVGENY ARSYUKHIN