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Hi Geoff in New Zealand. You said the Sun would be at 54° E and 23.44° N at the time of the JUNE solstice . Ha ha. That's me ttrying to be up/down neutral by calling it *JUNE*.

Thank you Josh for being "neutral" as us "Down Unders" struggle through Winter ;-)

You have the latitude to 0.01° precsion. but the longitude to the nearest degree only. What would be the longitude of that spot to the same precision as the latitude?

I'm embarrassed by my answer Josh, in hindsight it was indeed very poor. The reason for that is somewhat explained by the "timestamp" on my reply message which was 9:10 (-7) which makes it 16:10 UTC, and given NZ is currently +12 to UTC, it meant I sent the message at 4:10am (local time). This is half way through my normal 8 hour sleeping period. I had been woken about 4 minutes before this time by a very loud motorbike in our normally very quiet street. So being half awake I checked on my phone (whilst still in bed) to see if the world still existed, and noted Frank's question. 

I thought how can I very quickly answer that with minimum effort, and so I 'copied and pasted' from a website that gave the time of Solstice matching that of the USNO and a declination that seemed right. I did a quick "sanity check" and noted "54" was close to "Liwa" on a Google Map, so I rushed off my message, and went back to sleep.

Am I missing something: it's not EXACTLY 54.00 is it?

You're not missing anything Josh - I was missing sleep !

Checking now (out of bed) the GHA of the Sun at 8:24 UTC on June 21 2026, I get 305.554°, which is equivalent to 54° 26.8' East Longitude.

So you are correct Josh - it was NOT a simple integer degree answer!

Speaking of trusting an Internet web page, I just spent some time doing a search for the time of the June 2026 Solstice on the NET, and there is an amazing array of answers, by just looking at the "minutes" and ignoring local time issues !

Thanks for your reply Josh, and enjoy your Summer Solstice in 12 hours time (I will get my turn in 6 months ;-).

Regards, Geoff Hitchcox, Christchurch, New Zealand.