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I've been doing a lot of reading about astronomy latley and today I read about something called a solar analemma. Some of you may already know about it but I just wanted to share.
Basically it is the pattern created if the sun is photographed and ploted at the same daily time from the same location throughout the year. It has a different shape based upon where you are on the planet, but from mid-northern and southern latitudes it looks like this: ![]() The vertical change is created by the Earth's tilt off of the ecliptic. The sun is at the lower section during the winter when tilted away from the sun. Then it is higher in the summer when the sunlight is hitting at a more direct angle. The horizontal change is caused by the Earth changing its speed relative to the sun during its eliptical orbit along the ecliptic. I thought this was really neat (I love astronomy in case you haven't noticed ![]() I find it incredible that there is a hidden, natural geometric pattern created every year in the sky that is very similar to the symbol infinity. I think that is quite a sign that the cosmos truley is infinite.
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It also looks like the number 8 (trollface.png)
![]() But yeah, that is actually interesting how it moves... I find astronomy very interesting ![]()
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