Bostonhenge Returns to Boston Streets From Oct. 27 to Oct. 30
The sun will set around 5:42 p.m. during the alignment, with another viewing window expected in early February.
By Kevin Duarte
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Bostonhenge, the twice-yearly alignment of the setting sun with Boston's street corridors, is expected to occur from Oct. 27 to Oct. 30, with the sun going down around 5:42 p.m., the Boston Globe reported.
The effect happens when the sun drops into the gap between buildings along certain streets, lighting the facades and drawing crowds of onlookers and photographers. Visibility depends on cloud cover.
The Globe listed Back Bay among the better vantage points, including the spot where Arlington, Columbus and Stuart streets meet at Statler Park, as well as a stretch of South Boston running along East First Street and East Broadway toward East Eighth Street.
Dave Epstein, a contributing meteorologist for the Globe, said the sun is setting at 250 degrees during the window and edges closer to due west, at 270 degrees, each day. He said that during this period the sun drops between buildings as it sets, before later moving far enough that it sinks behind them instead.
Another viewing window is expected in early February, according to the Globe.
The Boston version takes its name from Manhattanhenge, a term coined by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in 2002 for the same alignment with New York City's east-west grid. Similar events are now marked in San Francisco, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Raleigh and Toronto, and MIT has its own version known as MIThenge.
This story was first reported by The Boston Globe.
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