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Astronomy Picture of the Day - A Double Lunar Analemma over Turkey
APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 10 Oct, 2022 | Image Credit & Copyright: Betul Turksoy

Posted on 10/10/2022 2:31:35 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: An analemma is that figure-8 curve you get when you mark the position of the Sun at the same time each day for one year. But the trick to imaging an analemma of the Moon is to wait bit longer. On average the Moon returns to the same position in the sky about 50 minutes and 29 seconds later each day. So photograph the Moon 50 minutes 29 seconds later on successive days. Over one lunation or lunar month it will trace out an analemma-like curve as the Moon's actual position wanders due to its tilted and elliptical orbit. Since the featured image was taken over two months, it actually shows a double lunar analemma. Crescent lunar phases too thin and faint to capture around the New moon are missing. The two months the persistent astrophotographer chose were during a good stretch of weather during July and August, and the location was Kayseri, Turkey


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: analemma; astronomy; nasa
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1 posted on 10/10/2022 2:31:35 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 10/10/2022 2:31:52 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; America_Right; AZ .44 MAG; ...
Pinging the APOD list.

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3 posted on 10/10/2022 2:32:25 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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bttt


4 posted on 10/10/2022 2:40:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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5 posted on 10/10/2022 2:40:51 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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I knew her in high school


6 posted on 10/10/2022 2:49:20 PM PDT by KTM rider (, or how Ambassador Stevens was killed because he was about to testify before the UN council )
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To: MtnClimber

Is it analemma or analenema? I’m so confused.

Anyway, if you’re gonna have a double analenema, Turkey is a good place for it.


7 posted on 10/10/2022 3:00:55 PM PDT by adorno
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I don’t know why the moon needs an enema.

Seems like that would take a pretty fair sized hose.


8 posted on 10/10/2022 3:15:28 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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And you know where the hose goes, don’t you? (Squeezing eyes shut, waiting for the inevitable chorus...)


9 posted on 10/10/2022 3:17:16 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: MtnClimber

If we have to see your anal dilemma better over Turkey than the US.


10 posted on 10/10/2022 3:27:49 PM PDT by DannyTN (i)
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[A Double Lunar Analemma over Turkey]

First “Stars Fell On Alabama*,” and now this.

(* h/t Jimmy Buffett)


11 posted on 10/10/2022 3:50:37 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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At first I thought it said "anal lemur," and I'm like:

[The actual title of the source reddit post is "This lemur butt is for sale."]

12 posted on 10/10/2022 3:57:33 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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Turn the hounds loose on it, Frank! Hit it with a stick!


13 posted on 10/10/2022 4:02:54 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: KTM rider
Ana Lemma.

Isn't that the title of a novel by Dostoevsky? Or was it Tolstoy?

14 posted on 10/10/2022 4:47:08 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
No, it was Anal Emma by Stacey Abrams using a pseudonym.
15 posted on 10/10/2022 4:55:59 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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12 posts in and still no Uranus jokes.


16 posted on 10/10/2022 4:56:54 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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Throw out the hardware. Let’s do it right.


17 posted on 10/10/2022 5:01:25 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (My aim in life is to be a "headquarters-looking type.")
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