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English: The date of the northern summer solstice between 1750 and 2250. The graph shows the date (in GMT) of the northern summer solstice (the moment the sun reaches it northernmost position in the sky, or the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere) through the years. As the summer solstice occurs on the same astronomical date each year (although changes may occur on much larger time scales), the graph basically shows the difference between real, astronomical time and the Gregorian calendar. Each year, the Gregorian calendar is approximately 0.24 days faster than the astronomical calendar, which is corrected by a leap day once every four years. This 4-year cycle is clearly visible in the graph. To compensate for the largest part of the remainder of the difference, there is no leap year in 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200, as can be clearly seen in the graph, too. Note that the summer solstice in 1800 and in 2200 are not on equal dates; this shows that the leap year compensation as described before is not perfect and more complicated schemes are necessary to keep the Gregorian calendar synchronized over even longer time scales. However, the Gregorian calendar was actually intended to synchronize with the vernal equinox, not the summer solstice, which is not exactly the same thing over the medium term...
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Source Own work; The data was generated by Astrolabe (https://sourceforge.net/projects/astrolabegenera), which uses the algorithms described in Jean Meeus's "Astronomical Algorithms" (ISBN 978-0943396613). The data have an error of less than 2.6 minutes.
Author BasZoetekouw; spelling corrections and revision of subtitle by User:Gerry Ashton on 14 September 2008.
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current11:25, 28 February 2024Thumbnail for version as of 11:25, 28 February 2024800 × 420 (87 KB)Demonocrazy (talk | contribs)File uploaded using svgtranslate tool (https://svgtranslate.toolforge.org/). Added translation for eu.
19:00, 3 March 2023Thumbnail for version as of 19:00, 3 March 2023800 × 420 (87 KB)A876 (talk | contribs)1750 – 2250 is 500 years, not 400.
18:56, 10 January 2022Thumbnail for version as of 18:56, 10 January 2022800 × 420 (87 KB)Kurmanbek (talk | contribs)File uploaded using svgtranslate tool (https://svgtranslate.toolforge.org/). Added translation for tr.
00:46, 15 September 2008Thumbnail for version as of 00:46, 15 September 2008800 × 420 (112 KB)Gerry Ashton (talk | contribs){{Information |Description= |Source= |Date= |Author= |Permission= |other_versions= }}
18:04, 14 September 2008Thumbnail for version as of 18:04, 14 September 2008800 × 420 (112 KB)Gerry Ashton (talk | contribs)Capitalize the word "Gregorian".
13:30, 6 September 2008Thumbnail for version as of 13:30, 6 September 2008800 × 420 (112 KB)Baszoetekouw (talk | contribs){{Information |Description= |Source= |Date= |Author= |Permission= |other_versions= }}
13:19, 6 September 2008Thumbnail for version as of 13:19, 6 September 2008512 × 234 (57 KB)Baszoetekouw (talk | contribs){{Information |Description={{en|1=The date of the summer solstice between 1750 and 2250. The data was generated by Astrolabe (http://astrolabe.sourceforge.net/), which uses the algorithms described in Jean Meeus's "Astronomical Algorithms" (ISBN 978-0943

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