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User 104.32.101.150 left the following comment here:

NOTE: This picture is incorrect. During Summer for the Northern Hemisphere, the right half of this picture, the Northern Hemisphere should be pointed towards the Sun. During Winter for the Northern Hemisphere, the left half of this picture, the Northern Hemisphere should be pointed away from the Sun. To envision how this picture should look in reality, either flip the North and South Poles, or switch the Vernal (Spring) and Autumnal (Fall) Equinoxes, or imagine that the Earth's Equatorial plane is really 23.4 degrees counter-clockwise from the ecliptic - not 23.4 degrees clockwise from the ecliptic as shown here.

This shows a basic misunderstanding of the geometry. The diagram as drawn depicts the summer solstice, and the northern hemisphere is pointed toward the Sun. The ecliptic is the path of the Sun as seen from the Earth, not the other way around, which is what 104.32.101.150 seemed to be describing... "the right/left half of this picture" is ambiguous - the Earth orbits the Sun, and if this diagram were animated, it would carry the entire celestial sphere and all of the construction lines around with it. Tfr000 (留言) 14:24, 14 May 2015 (UTC)