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What is the analemma? With a few simple animations the analemma can be readily understood...
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This figure-8 path that the sun makes in the sky is called the analemma. On some days you might notice that the sun is not in the sky where, according to the time on your watch, you would expect it to be.
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Encyclopedia: Analemma
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Solar Image Gallery - Analemma; Strange as it may seem, only seven times has someone ever managed to successfully image the solar analemma as a multi-exposure on a single piece of film. For a full-screen rendition of a particular analemma with imaging details, please click on the image of interest.
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This annual north-south oscillation of the sun's declination angle is responsible for the lengthwise extension of the analemma pattern.
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The first analemma photo, taken by Sky & Telescope associate editor Dennis DiCicco from 1978 One of the latest photos of the analemma, photographed by...
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Set the analemma curve upright, and it becomes a miniature almanac. The vertical coordinate of each point on it gives the sun's declination on a particular day of the year, while the horizontal coordinate tells how much the sun is ahead of or behind clock time on that day.
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Great Falls Observes the International Year of Astronomy in 2009. Here is the 2009 schedule for talks being sponsored by the Analemma Society, Fairfax County Park Authority, Fairfax County Libraries, and the Friends of the Great Falls Library.
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The answer is no, and the shape traced out by the Sun over the course of a year is called an analemma. The Sun's apparent shift is caused by the Earth's motion around the Sun when combined with the tilt of the Earth's rotation axis.
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