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Solar Photography Pictures
of the Day & Cool Solar Imagery Includes links to Astronomy, SOHO and TRACE Pictures of the Day and transit photos. Solar Photo Gallery Photographs by Vincent Chan
Viewing and Understanding the Analemma Photographs by Anthony Ayiomamitis
If you looked at the Sun at the same time each day, from the same place, would it appear at the same location in the sky? If the Earth were not tilted, and if its orbit around the Sun were perfectly circular, then, yes, it would. However, a combination of the Earth's 23.5 degree tilt and its slightly elliptical orbit combine to generate this figure "8" pattern of where the Sun would appear at the same time throughout the year. The pattern is called an analemma. Read More...
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