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Free Saturday March Equinox Event
March 9 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
March Equinox Event set for Free Saturday, March 9, 2024, from 11 –2 pm
The Maturango Museum is celebrating the March Vernal Equinox on Saturday, March 9th from 11 to 2 pm. We will have a sun/earth/moon model to view, a craft and, if weather permits, astronomers from China Lake Astronomical Society will set up their telescopes for viewing the sun.
A solar equinox is a moment in time when the sun appears directly above the equator rather than north or south of the equator. On the day of the equinox, the Sun appears to rise “due east” and set “due west” and daylight and night are almost equal in length in most time zones in the world.
The March equinox is the moment the Sun crosses the equator from the south to the north. For us in the northern hemisphere, this moment in time marks the beginning of spring. The March equinox is also called the vernal or spring equinox. For those in the southern hemisphere, the March equinox marks the autumnal or fall equinox and the beginning of fall.
The craft for this event is a pressed flower suncatcher.