Equinox and equilux

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thesweetcheat Mar 20, 2017 07:36:56

I am admitting my previous ignorance of the equilux. I always thought that the equinox is the day when there are equal hours of day and night, but I was wrong. So apologies to those who are already well aware, but here's an explanation of the equilux.

https://pineriverobservatory.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/the-equinox-is-coming-so-is-the-equilux-so-whats-the-difference-about-four-days/

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tjj Mar 21, 2017 18:09:18
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thesweetcheat wrote:
I am admitting my previous ignorance of the equilux. I always thought that the equinox is the day when there are equal hours of day and night, but I was wrong. So apologies to those who are already well aware, but here's an explanation of the equilux.

https://pineriverobservatory.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/the-equinox-is-coming-so-is-the-equilux-so-whats-the-difference-about-four-days/

I didn't know about equilux tsc so thanks for this. Was talking about it to a friend today who told me 'lux' means light in Latin - as noctis/nox means night (I think I did know that) - same root as nocturnal. I'm afraid along with many other things, I didn't learn Latin at school.