Manhattanhenge

昨夜のNews 9では，Manhattanhengeの小特集がありました。もちろんこれはStonehengeからのもじりです。とある映画のラストシーンでも使われたビルの谷間に映る夕日はあの大都会に暮らす人々の心をいやしてくれるのでしょうね。（UG）

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

For Manhattan, a place where evening matters more than morning, that special day comes twice a year. For 2012 they fall on May 29th, and July 12th, when the setting Sun aligns precisely with the Manhattan street grid, creating a radiant glow of light across Manhattan's brick and steel canyons, simultaneously illuminating both the north and south sides of every cross street of the borough's grid. A rare and beautiful sight. These two days happen to correspond with Memorial Day and Baseball's All Star break. Future anthropologists might conclude that, via the Sun, the people who called themselves Americans worshiped War and Baseball.

For these two days, as the Sun sets on the grid, half the disk sits above and half below the horizon. My personal preference for photographs. But the day after, May 30th, and the day before, July 11, also offer Manhattanhenge moments, but at sunset, you instead will find the entire ball of the Sun on the horizon.

http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/resources/starstruck/manhattanhenge/