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- Wezlanator, on 10/12/2007, -7/+161WHOA! The sun!
Thanks to Digg I haven't seen that in a long time. - CurtHowland, on 10/12/2007, -5/+51"The sun moves too slowly,..."
Actually, it is the Earth that moves. :^) - habenneas, on 10/12/2007, -7/+44No, no, the real picture:
http://turingshop.com/images/suns_path_over_1_year/ - scrag10, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35If you look on a Globe, you will see this with the months labeled around it. In the movey Castaway with Tom Hanks he uses this tell tell what time of year it is.
- laplacian, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma
- marcuschi, on 10/12/2007, -6/+33heh.. you said Anal emma
- YellowStar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Anybody know how the Flat Earth Society deals with that ?
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19The Sun's just bouncing around on the string from which it is suspended. Obviously.
- supermanred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Actually both are moving. Everything in the universe moves and there is no constant as far as we can tell. Constant flux baby!
- samm71790, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16actually the sun moves around in the galaxy... and the whole galaxy moves around in the universe so... they both move!!!!
- NiGHTSChao, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13You didn't get the memo did you...
Earth's rotation path around the sun is not a linear circle.. - venicerocco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13It's in Apollo 13.
- antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Omicron Persei Eight
- gconeen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14just like the text books show
- jmontes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11There's far fewer than 365 suns in the picture, if that's what you mean.
- reevolutn, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15emma likes anal?
- s1nfony, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11awesome photo & info / unfortunate name
- Smashery, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Same concept, but from Mars: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061230.html
- missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9...Earth.
- gfixler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Someone with the hardware ready to go should do what I've been considering for ages now - setting up an old computer with a webcam pointed out the window to take a picture of the sun once per minute, 24/7, every day for one year. Then write a script to add the sun shots together in real time so you can scroll through the day, seeing the analemma move across the sky. This could be done with something as simple as a Processing script, and then it could be made to work online, and shared with Digg again. Actually, I wanted to use an old Canon Digital Elph with a little robot hooked up to fire off the pics, so they could be nice and high-res. Anyone know if there's some kind of SD pass-through cable, so a computer can just act like an SD card, with a camera being none the wiser, writing to it all the time like normal? Then you could check on the pics remotely from another terminal, so you wouldn't mess up the system.
You could just do the entire range that the sun is ever going to be up to save space, or let it go around the clock so you can see what the... moonalemma(?) looks like at the same time every night, again, able to scroll it through the night. I haven't a spare computer, nor a webcam, and none of my windows give me a decent view of the sky. Those are my excuses, or I'd be half a year in by now.
If you do it, consider an UPS for the computer to make sure it doesn't go out, and syncing it up daily, or weekly to some atomic clock to keep it accurate. Oh, and it might be best to use a simple Linux system that won't try to auto-update itself all the time. - Xavier1012, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9absolutely stunning!
- zeromancer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"linear circle" ... think about what you really just said.
- dreamlayers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7In the external links section of the Wikipedia article there are links to other analemmas, including one of the Moon:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050713.html - sctechguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Ouch, too bad you were already beat to the joke by habenneas just above.
- SteveRogers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Does something about the picture seem extraterrestrial to you?
- ProphetSix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Yes I KNOW that Wilson... but if we're gonna make a raft in time.. we're gonna need more rope...."
- ScrumFritter, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Tom Hanks invented the Analemma. Fact.
- antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I'm surprised the suns are not closer together (forming a solid line). I believe the photographer removed certain photos to make this collage.
- meethree, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4software2, I gree with you. dig up.
But I strongly disagree with openyoureyes17, dig down.
I'm not sure how I feel about greenlight2001 yet. - mygans, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3m wondering will the shape be the same even if the pic is taken from someother place??...like south pole or equator.....
- jhul, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Copernicus be damned!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3openyoureyes17
I agree with you. So, beyond digging you up, I'm going to tell you that I agree. - tackle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Quote: "linear circle" ... think about what you really just said.
A straight line is a circle with infinite radius of curvature. - RealSurreal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1looks like a bowling pin
- jamesvaughn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Whenever I see an 8 now, I'm gonna think of Emma.
- pauliewoll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If 'analemma' shows up in my browsing history, I am *so* busted.
- Silencer7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2analemma = A LAME MAN (or Mana meal)
- fracturing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Do you actually know what the word ironic means?
- roblem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Dennis DiCicco did this same thing many years ago (78-79). Here's a site that has a gallery of these, including Dennis'. Dennis was working for Sky & Telescope at the time. His shots were taken from his backyard in Massachusetts, and is the best example I've seen to date.
http://www.analemma.de/english/analem.html - Shane98c, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, the galaxy does not move around the universe it is moving away from all the other galaxies... which make up the Universe.
- scald, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2And the path is never the same! Incredible!
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http://nano-tech.freehostia.com - ebiz1022, on 03/03/2008, -0/+0I love that picture. http://plumm.info
- Bhaveshjhaveri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Interesting topic selected.Someone must put the live video of all the snaps made round the year onto Digg.
- sat5678, on 02/07/2008, -0/+0Thanks for this. It's stunning.
http://pc-satellite-tv.info - epalla, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2MTU Represent
- darkone2007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0O i saw it, it does move!....
- cwshea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Direct link:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0207/analemma_vr_big.jpg -
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