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Austrian Analemma

September 26, 2012

Austrian Analemma

The multiple suns trace an intersecting curve known as an analemma. Consider this careful record of the Sun’s yearly journey through southern Austrian skies.   Image credit: Robert Pölzl

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Sunrise Analemma

September 21, 2012

Sunrise Analemma

An analemma is that figure-8 curve that you get when you mark the position of the Sun at the same time each day throughout the year. In this case, 17 individual images taken at 0231 UT on dates between April 2 and September 16 follow half the analemma curve, looking east toward the rising sun and the Caspian sea from the boardwalk in the port of Baku, Azerbaijan.   Image credit: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)

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A Year at Delphi

April 17, 2011

Analemma DelphiThe sun seems to rise from behind the hills near the Tholos, a circular building in the sanctuary of Athena Pronaia in ancient Delphi, in an analemma photo composite made in Greece in 2001. Photographer Anthony Ayiomamitis
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Analemma over Acropole

November 23, 2010

Analemma

The shape traced out by the Sun over the course of a year is called Analemma.   Image credit Anthony Ayiomamitis

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