Sunset, Sunrise! How swiftly flew the night!

**SUMMER SOLSTICE - SUNRISE AT STONEHENGE - Photo by Anne Andersson from livestream in real time June 21, 2026**

Of course, the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, is also the shortest night of the year!

But with just slightly over seven hours from sunset to sunrise—from Saturday night to Sunday morning—it seemed such a strangely short time!

I went on two virtual livestream events

on

Saturday afternoon, June 20, and Sunday morning, June 21.

I experienced

Summer Solstice 2026

at

Stonehenge

in the U.K.

Livestream in Real Time!

It was quite an experience!

I offer you a few of the photos and videos, which I took by screenshot during my visit.

This virtual access was granted free of charge courtesy of English Heritage. I am so grateful to EH for inviting us in for the night of the sunset and the morning of the sunrise.

Most of all I am so grateful that their streaming service worked with the link I provided in my post on the Solstice last week.

It was very exciting and breathtakingly beautiful—and also fun to watch the people.

Some were there with their phone cameras to experience the the amazing geometric precision in the positioning of the stones.

The stones

Some people were there purely for the spiritual experience.

Currently, British Summer Time (BST) is five hours ahead of the time in the U.S., which is on Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

I watched the Solstice sunset on Saturday afternoon at 4:26 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), which was 9:20 pm British Summer Time (BST).

Then I stayed up well into my Saturday evening to return to those mysterious stones (virtually) to witness the exciting Solstice sunrise, which occurred at 11:52 pm EDT (4:52 am BST).

The sunrise was continually streamed by English Heritage until 1:00 am EDT (6:00 am BST).

So, without further ado…

The first group of photos and videos is of the sunset: the second group is of the sunrise.

Both moments, sunset and sunrise, were very special, although seeing the sunrise on Solstice morning was, of course, quite a thrill!!

At various points, English Heritage added some background information, for example, they reported:

The people who built Stonehenge were farmers, so knowing the activity of he sun was very important for their livelihood. It was a calendar, of sorts.

Here we go. Enjoy!

SUNSET