Not quite. The sun doesn’t always rise in the exact same place. As the Earth orbits the sun throughout the year, the position of the rising sun gradually shifts along the horizon. It’s this shifting path of sunlight that gives us events like the #SummerSolstice, which we observe yesterday.
Canada, like the Philippines, is in the Northern Hemisphere, so it has the same seasonal cycle, with the summer solstice in June and the winter solstice in December.
In this striking compilation of images from Edmonton, Alberta, you can clearly see how the direction of the rising sun changes from month to month throughout 2021. The camera always faces east: north to the left, and south to the right. The top photo was taken in December 2020, and the bottom in December 2021 captures a full year of sunrises.
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