»The view along 28.9º offset

E 14th and Avenue C

This should have been a perspective of the setting sun, the disc revealed in its entirety, but clouds moved in late afternoon and spoiled an otherwise spectacularly sunny day. The phenomenon of Manhattanhenge occurs a few times each other, but none as spectacularly as in late May. The term comes from an article in Natural History magazine by the astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

salim filed this under crescat scientia and stoopin' at 22h42 Friday, 30 May 2008 (link) (Yr two bits?)