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Analemma over the Ukraine
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18.06.2007 00:00
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Analemma over the Ukraine
Explanation:
If you took a picture of the Sun at the same time each day,
would it remain in the same position?
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.
The Sun will appear at its highest point of the
analemma
during
summer
and at its lowest during
winter.
Analemmas
created from different Earth
latitudes
would appear at least slightly different, as well as
analemmas
created at a different time each day.
The
analemma
pictured to the left
was built up by
Sun photographs
taken from 1998 August
through 1999 August from
Ukraine
.
The foreground
picture
from the same location was taken
during the early evening in 1999 July.
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