Hello Anselmo and all readers, > Don't you think it'd be better to call the equinoxes 'ascending > equinoxe' and 'descending equinoxe' instead of 'vernal equinox' > and 'autumn equinox'? Do you know if the International Astronomy Union > said something about this?
All I can find in a quick search on the internet is a lot of definitions using the J2000 equinox, and the "vernal equinox", even in places describing an "ascending node" of some body. So, "ascending equinox" seems not be used so often just yet. Personally, I like "vernal", even if your suggestion does make sense. > PS: By the way, I am under a persistent 6-week cloudy sky which covers > the Sun all day... please confirm that the Sun is still there :-D Today, I noted a bright luminous phenomenon in the sky, somewhere behind the haze, in - as far as I could make out so quickly - the approximate position the sun would normally have occupied. I therefore believe it possible that the sun still exists. Rudolf 52-30N 4-40E -
