The Winter Solstice

The winter solstice marks the shortest day in the calendar. The sun will rise at stonehenge at about 8 o eight a m and set at four o one p m. This is the shortest day length of any day of the year, which is why it is the winter solstice. On the 20 first of december, two thousand and 18 the sun will rise  at around 8:30am local time (8:30pm GMT) It will then set again just after 9AM local time (9:00 am BST) When standing at Stonehenge on the winter Solstice, the sun disappears into a narrow gap behind the tallest trilithon - this is