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SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Throughout this month you may have noticed we've been losing some of that daylight and here we are at the equinox, equal night.

September is indeed the month that Michiana loses the most daylight, roughly an hour and a half in total, and we're just going to continue to get lighter later and darker earlier into December.

This is of course thanks to the angle of the sun. Today it's positioned directly above the equator, so not only do we have equal day and equal night, but we also have the shadow of the earth equally dividing the east and west hemispheres.

On satellite views of Earth, you can see the shadow line separating day and night and how much it moves

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