post: summer - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 2006 - 55 Euro Cent

The special postage stamp series "Post" brings the advantages of the medium letter into the consciousness of the people. The postage stamp "summer" is the third of a total of four stamps on the subject of "seasons" in 2006. The current stamp shows a typical image of the summer: a yellow flowering rape field. Summer is the warmest of the four seasons in the temperate and Arctic climates. Astronomically it begins with the summer solstice. This is the time when the sun is almost perpendicular to the tropic and the days are the longest. In the northern hemisphere, this is the 21st of June. Then the days are getting shorter and the nights longer. The summer ends in the northern hemisphere with the autumn equinox on 22 or 23 September. Between the 15th and the 18th of August the summer nights offer a fascinating spectacle: then the earth will cross a large amount of meteorite splinters in its orbit around the sun. Many of them will invade Earth's atmosphere and burn up brightly. It is expected that every hour up to 90 shooting stars will be observed in the sky.