Fall Equinox 2024 Southern Hemisphere. This means that the sun illuminates the northern or southern hemisphere more depending on where the earth is along its orbit. On the day of the autumn (september) equinox, the sun, moving along the ecliptic, crosses the celestial equator, moving from the northern hemisphere to the southern.
(the reverse is true in the southern hemisphere, where the september equinox signals the first day of spring.) Is the september equinox the first day of fall?
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