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About Yule : The date and time of the winter solstice
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From: MSN NicknameLustreofHope  (Original Message)Sent: 12/3/2007 7:56 PM
The date and time of the winter solstice
The exact date varies from year to year and may occur between the 20th and 23rd of December.
Year
Winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere (UT)
1999
DEC-22 @ 07:44
2000
DEC-21 @ 13:37
2001
DEC-21 @ 19:21
2002
DEC-22 @ 01:14
2003
DEC-22 @ 07:03
2004
DEC-21 @ 12:41
2005
DEC-21 @ 18:30
2006
DEC-22 @ 00:20
2007
DEC-22 @ 06:09
2008
DEC-21 @ 11:59
2009
DEC-21 @ 17:49
2010
DEC-21 @ 23:38
The above dates and times from 1999 to 2003 are as accurate as the astronomical calculations on The Dome of the Sky web site. 11 The dates and times for 2004 and afterwards were taken from Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Astronomy. 13 The latter are based on the Scientific Astronomer computer program which typically gives times that differ up to 15 minutes from the calculations of the U.S. Naval Observatory. An online "Easy Date Converter" calculates the dates and times of the equinoxes and solstices within 20 seconds. 19 Times are in UT (Universal Time). This used to be called Greenwich Mean Time or GMT. In North America, you can find your local time by subtracting:

3 hours 30 minutes for Newfoundland time

4 hours for ATL

5 hours for EST

6 hours for CST

7 hours for MST

8 hours for PST

9 hours for ALA

10 hours for HAW
The winter solstice for 1999 was rather special. It involved the coincidence of the solstice, full moon and lunar perigee on the same date. (The moon's orbit around the earth is not circular; it is elliptical. "Perigee" simply means the point in the moon's orbit where it is closest to earth.) At this solstice, the moon was both full and at its maximum size (about 14% larger that at its minimum size). The last time that this happened was in 1866. The following full moon on 2000-JAN-21 was also unusual - it was eclipsed by the earth's shadow.


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