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  1. 2026 September 20

    Analemma over the Callanish Stones
    * Image Credit & Copyright: Giuseppe Petricca
    astrobin.com/users/gmrphotogra

    Explanation:
    If you went outside at the same time every day and took a picture that included the Sun, how would the Sun's position change? A visual answer to that question is an analemma, a composite image taken from the same spot at the same time over the course of a year. The featured analemma was composed from images taken every few days at noon near the village of Callanish in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, UK. In the foreground are the Callanish Stones, a stone circle built around 2700 BC during humanity's Bronze Age. It is not known if the placement of the Callanish Stones has or had astronomical significance. The ultimate causes for the figure-8 shape of this and all analemmas are the tilt of the Earth axis and the ellipticity of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. At the solstices, the Sun will appear at the top or bottom of an analemma. The featured image was taken near the December solstice and so the Sun appears near the bottom. Equinoxes, however, correspond to analemma middle points -- not the intersection point. In two days there will be an equinox ("equal night"), when day and night are equal over all of planet Earth. Many cultures celebrate a change of season at an equinox.
    science.nasa.gov/sun/
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma
    gmrphotographer.net/wordpress/
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callanish
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_He
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_K
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callanis
    youtu.be/5mcPHxuVhWk
    history.com/articles/bronze-age
    youtube.com/watch?v=mkbEhp8hJN8
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160822.ht
    spaceplace.nasa.gov/seasons/en/
    mathworld.wolfram.com/Ellipse.
    science.nasa.gov/wp-content/up
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250615.ht
    science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-o
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210922.ht
    unsplash.com/photos/orange-and
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox
    mentalfloss.com/article/59049/
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240319.ht

    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260920.ht

    #space #astronomy #astrophotography #photography #sun #analemma #NASA #apod #space_related #space_culture_Club #apod

  2. @AlaskaWx @Climatologist49 What about the radius of apparent solar disc ? Along with refraction, like you wrote, it moves some artic circle phenomenon toward North.
    I like to think about these sunrise and sunset questions with #analemma in mind.

  3. @AkaSci
    #NealStephenson the #SciFi author makes some use of them in his large interesting novel #Anathem

    Which also has some echoes of what, perhaps, scientists might consider around this period of Administration of the USA.

    #Analemma #Solstice

  4. I used to wonder why we don't set the time based on the sun being at it's highest point at noon.

    I should probably stop asking this sort of question.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma

    #dst #noon #analemma

  5. 📸 Two Worlds, Two Analemmas
    An analemma shows the Sun’s position at the same time each day over a year. Earth’s forms a figure-8. Mars, with a more eccentric orbit, creates a teardrop shape. The images were taken from Earth (2011–2012) and by the Opportunity rover on Mars (2006–2008).
    📅 June 21, 2025
    📷 Tunc Tezel, NASA/JPL/Cornell/ASU/TAMU
    🔗 stellarsnap.space
    #APOD #Analemma #Earth #Mars #Solstice #PlanetaryScience #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

  6. @jbond You take the photograph of the celestial object at the same time of day over a whole year. The shape is produced because of the tilt of the #Earth in its orbit. The slightly irregular shape by the fact that the orbit is not quite circular but #elliptical. I made a simulated #analemma and posted it here some time ago using #Sellarium, to show what happens.

  7. @grobi

    Dates

    The Solar Eclipse Analemma Project
    Image Credit & Copyright: Hunter Wells

    #Sun
    #analemma
    #APOD

  8. Taking some inspiration from today's #APOD, here I've used #Stellarium to simulate the apparent trajectory of the #Sun if it were photographed at the beginning of each month at midday where I live during this whole year. The characteristic figure-of-eight path is called an #Analemma. The individual frames were made into an #AnimatedGif using #Gimp.

  9. Here’s a simulation of an #analemma for my location for the #Sun at midday on the first day of each month in 2025. Produced with #Stellarium and #Gimp.

  10. Solar Analemma 2024
    * Image Credit & Copyright: Betul Turksoy
    instagram.com/betul_turksoy/

    Explanation:
    Recorded during 2024, this year-spanning series of images reveals a pattern in the seasonal drift of the Sun's daily motion through planet Earth's sky. Known to some as an analemma, the figure-eight curve was captured in exposures taken only at 1pm local time on clear days from Kayseri, Turkiye. Of course the Sun's position on the 2024 solstice dates was at the top and bottom of the curve. They correspond to the astronomical beginning of summer and winter in the north. The points along the curve half-way between the solstices, but not the figure-eight curve crossing point, mark the 2024 equinoxes and the start of spring and fall. Regional peaks and dormant volcano Mount Erciyes lie along the southern horizon in the 2024 timelapse skyscape.
    instagram.com/betul_turksoy/p/
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma
    ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241221.ht
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241204.ht
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190320.ht

    #earth #space #Analemma #solstice #NASA #science #nature

  11. Well, at least the Sun will start setting a little later 'round about Friday...

  12. A Look Inside the Geochron Clock - There are plenty of cool clocks out there, and maps by their very essence are cool... - hackaday.com/2024/05/31/a-look #synchronous #clockhacks #worldtime #analemma #geochron #worldmap #clock #map

  13. @meteobures 🌄 ⏰ Ça y est ! Depuis le 2 à Bures-sur-Yvette, le #Soleil se lève de nouveau plus tôt que la veille. L'#analemme du Soleil y tangente l'horizon à 07:42 UTC tous les jours, et le ☀️ venait juste d'y franchir le point de tangence.
    Le début de la fin des grasses matinées ?
    Ce fut plus tôt en remontant au nord jusqu'au cercle polaire arctique ; se sera plus tard en descendant vers le sud jusqu'au tropique du Capricorne (hémisphère sud).
    #astronomie #solsticeDHiver #grasseMatinée #analemma

  14. Avez-vous remarqué ? 🌅🌇
    Ça y est, les jours commencent à rallonger du soir ! C'est un bon prétexte pour marquer le coup : à l'instar du #solstice d'hiver, ou de toute autre fête de saison. 🥁
    Comme le ciel s'annonce dégagé ces prochains soirs par ici, c'est l'occasion tant espérée d'un pique-nique au #Soleil couchant pour contempler le phénomène*.
    Qui est partant ? 👀🕔
    #sonnezTrompettesRésonezMusettes #moufles #astronomie #romantisme #solsticeDHiver #Noël #analemme #analemma #merryChristmass

  15. @meteobures ça y est ! les jours recommencent à s'allonger le soir par chez vous. Mais comme ils raccourcissent encore trop vite le matin, la durée du jour diminue encore jusqu'au solstice d'hiver. Vu depuis la latitude de Bures-sur-Yvette, 49° nord, l'#analemme de l'heure de coucher tangente l'horizon ouest.
    #analemma

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