Equinox (disambiguation)

An equinox in astronomy is the event when the Sun can be observed to be directly above the equator.

Equinox may also refer to:

Astronomy

• Equinox (celestial coordinates), a moment of time chosen for a moving celestial coordinate system such as Right Ascension/Declination, often confused with Epoch

Companies

• Equinox (MLM), defunct multi-level marketing company, dissolved in 2001
• Equinox Fitness, chain of gyms based in New York with health clubs in U.S. cities
• Equinox Minerals Limited, a mining company operating in Canada and Australia
• Equinox Systems Inc., manufacturer of Super Serial Technology (SST) multiport serial adapters, now Avocent

Computing

• Equinox (Amiga demogroup), demogroup on the Amiga, active 1987–1996
• Equinox (Atari demogroup), demogroup on the Atari ST, active 1988–2007
• Equinox Desktop Environment, or EDE, a small desktop environment for the X Window System
• Equinox OSGi, an Eclipse project that aims to implement OSGi R4
• Equinox (1986 video game), a 1986 video game developed by Mikro-Gen
• Equinox (1993 video game), a 1993 video game developed by Software Creations

Entertainment and media

Comics

• Equinox (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain first appearing in 1974
• Equinox (DC Comics), a DC comics character, son of Power Girl, first appearing in 1994

Music

• Equinox (standard), the 1964 jazz standard by John Coltrane
• Equinox (Sérgio Mendes album), a 1967 album by Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66
• Equinox (Omar Rodríguez-López album), a 2013 album by Omar Rodríguez-López
• Equinox (Styx album), a 1975 album by Styx
• Équinoxe, a 1978 album by Jean Michel Jarre
• The Equinox (album), a 1997 studio album by Organized Konfusion
• "First of the Year (Equinox)" is a composition by Californian artist Skrillex
• Equinox (opera), an opera by the Slovenian composer Marjan Kozina
• "Equinox", a song by Heaven Shall Burn of their Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance)

Musical groups

• Equinox (thrash metal band), thrash metal band from Fredrikstad, Norway; started 1987
• Equinox (electro-industrial band), a 1998 side project of electro-industrial band Front Line Assembly
• Equinox Drum and Bugle Corps, a marching band from Biggleswade, Bedfordshire

Publications

• The Equinox of the Gods (Crowley), a 1936 book detailing the events and circumstances leading up to Aleister Crowley's transcription of The Book of the Law
• The Equinox, a periodical on occultism by the mystical order of Aleister Crowley, since 1909
• Equinox, Canadian magazine in publication between 1982 and 2002, until it was purchased by Canadian Geographic
• The Equinox, student newspaper of Keene State College
• EQuinox, the official EverQuest II magazine published by MMM Publishing in conjunction with Sony Online Entertainment
• Equinox (novel), a 1973 novel by Samuel R. Delany

Television and film

• Equinox (film), a 1970 American horror film
• Equinox (1992 film), a 1992 American film
• Equinox (TV series), a Channel 4 science documentary series, broadcast since 1986
• "Equinox" (Star Trek: Voyager), a 1999 2-part cliffhanger episode, between Seasons 5 and 6

Video games

• Equinox (1986 video game)
• Equinox (1993 video game)

Places

• Equinox Mountain, Vermont, USA
• Equinox Complex, eateries located in the Swissôtel The Stamford, featuring the Equinox Restaurant

Sport

• Vin Gerard (born 1986), first professional wrestler to perform as Equinox in Chikara
• Jimmy Olsen (wrestler) (born 1986), second professional wrestler to perform as Equinox in Chikara
• Equinox Marathon, an annual running marathon held in Fairbanks, Alaska

Transportation

• Celebrity Equinox, cruise ship launched in 2009
• Chevrolet Equinox, a General Motors SUV