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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

What is that picture? That’s interesting.


7 posted on 06/14/2008 4:36:51 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman
An analemma taken by Dennis DiCicco 1976-1977 and published in Sky and Telescope in 1978, iirc.

DiCicco was the first to do it, back in the days before digital cameras.

NASA's pathfinder did one on Mars.

On earth the southern loop is exaggerated by the phasing of the vernal equinox and perihelion. (In 12,000 years, the northern loop will be larger, in 6000, about equal.) On Mars, because of his greater orbital eccentricity and the phasing between Mars' vernal equinox and perihelion, the southern loop has been pinched into a point.

11 posted on 06/14/2008 4:53:28 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Hillary to Obama: Arkancide happens.)
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