Image:Earth-lighting-equinox EN.png

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Illumination of Earth by Sun on the day of equinox (vernal and autumnal).

Image by Przemyslaw "Blueshade" Idzkiewicz.

A view to eastern-hemisphere showing noon in Central European time zone (ingoring DST) on the day of equinox.


Following third-party images were used to create this image:

  • "Earth's City Lights" [1],
  • and "The Blue Marble: Land Surface, Ocean Color and Sea Ice" [2].

These images come from an archive of American government agency, NASA and as such, they constitute "public domain" content.

Illumination maps were created using "Home Planet" [3] by John Walker.

This image is hereby released under cc-by-sa license.

There exists also a Polish version of this image: Image:Earth-lighting-equinox PL.png

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