This monday and tuesday NY enjoy one of its best sunsets again thanks to the call “Manhattanhenge“and freak that occurs when the sunset aligns with the grid in which the streets of the city center are arranged.
This coincidence leaves each year spectacular images of the sun “pointed” between the skyscrapers of the Big Apple and is a fixed date for thousands of photography enthusiasts, who flock to the points with the best visibility to capture their snapshots.
This Monday, when you look west on the Manhattan grid you can see the sunset Half a solar disk perfectly framed by the streets, while tomorrow, Tuesday, you can enjoy a full view of the sun.
The weather forecasts -with clear days- and the date -today is a holiday in the United States- make this year a particularly good time to witness the phenomenon.
He “Manhattanhedge”which receives its name from a play on words with the prehistoric monument of England Stonehenge, occurs four days each year and this time it will repeat on July 12 and 13.
The dates vary each year since the grid on which the streets of Manhattan are laid out is inclined about 30 degrees to the east. If the design were perfectly aligned north-south, the phenomenon would occur with the equinoxes, according to the well-known American astrophysicist and writer Neil deGrasse Tyson in an article for the Museum of Natural History in New York.
Although other cities laid out on a grid have similar moments, the height of Manhattan’s buildings and the fact that from many points there are unobstructed views of the skyline towards the Hudson River make the picture that occurs in NY something unique.
According to experts, the best points to witness the spectacle are the widest streets in Manhattan in an east-west direction (14, 23, 42 and 57).
2023-05-29 15:35:00
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