Astronomy Picture of the Day - Solar Analemma 2024

Explanation: Recorded during 2024, this year-spanning series of images reveals a pattern in the seasonal drift of the Sun's daily motion through planet Earth's sky. Known to some as an analemma, the figure-eight curve was captured in exposures taken only at 1pm local time on clear days from Kayseri, Turkiye. Of course the Sun's position on the 2024 solstice dates was at the top and bottom of the curve. They correspond to the astronomical beginning of summer and winter in the north. The points along the curve half-way between the solstices, but not the figure-eight curve crossing point, mark the 2024 equinoxes and the start of spring and fall. Regional peaks and dormant volcano Mount Erciyes lie along the southern horizon in the 2024 timelapse skyscape.

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Oops. Eastern Pacific. If analemma lived in the western Pacific China would have eaten half of them and built military bases on the other half.

The rest of the analemma keyword, sorted:

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Driveway Analemma [12/04/2024]
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Afternoon Analemma [09/23/2023]
Astronomy Picture of the Day - A Double Lunar Analemma over Turkey [10/10/2022]
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Analemma over the Callanish Stones [09/18/2022]
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Analemma over Taipei [06/21/2022]
APOD: Lunations (09/12/18) [09/28/2018]
..hang a wandering skyscraper from asteroid orbiting Earth [03/29/2017]
Dubai to Have Tower Dangling in the Air? [03/28/2017]
That really IS a high rise: Sci-fi plan to hang wandering skyscraper from asteroid orbiting Earth... [03/28/2017]
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Tutulemma: Solar Eclipse Analemma [08/22/2016]
Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Antarctic Analemma [09/23/2015]
Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Opportunity's Mars Analemma [05/15/2014]
Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Waterton Lake Eclipse [04/17/2014]
Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Tutulemma: Solar Eclipse Analemma [12/22/2013]
Astronomy Picture of the Day -- High Noon Analemma Over Azerbaijan [10/13/2013]
Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Apollo's Analemma [09/21/2013]
Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Equinox: The Sun from Solstice to Solstice [09/22/2012]
Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Austrian Analemma [09/22/2012]
Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Sunrise Analemma (with a little extra) [09/20/2012]
Amateur astronomer captures image of sun with old tin tea caddy [12/22/2011]
Stunning photographs of landmark captured over six-month period [01/04/2009]
Weather Eye: earth's oval-shaped orbit creates strange effect [07/04/2008]
Astronomy Picture of the Day 06-21-04 [06/21/2004]
Astronomy Picture of the Day 6-26-03 [06/26/2003]
Astronomy Picture of the Day 3-20-03 [03/20/2003]
Astronomy Picture of the Day 7-09-02 [07/08/2002]
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Solar Analemma 2024 [01/02/2025]

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