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News photography is a form of historical record-keeping and documenting celestial events certainly is a major event.<\/p>\n
I am not strictly speaking about astro-photography, after all, I am well into press and editorial photography.<\/p>\n
Having to photograph this year’s summer solstice in Swansea Bay certainly involved a very early start to the day and some forward planning as to finding out where the sun could be seen rising from.<\/p>\n
Being a clear day helps. Haze in the horizon although not ideal may well help in that there isn’t as much contrast between the sun and the landscape.<\/p>\n
The summer solstice occurs when a planet’s rotational axis or geographical pole\u00a0on either its northern or its southern hemisphere, is most inclined toward the star\u00a0that it orbits. On the summer solstice, Earth’s maximum axial tilt\u00a0toward the Sun\u00a0is 23.44\u00b0. This happens twice each year (once in each hemisphere), when the Sun reaches its highest position in the sky as seen from the north or south pole.<\/p>\n