Questions tagged [analemma]
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What is the relationship between the shape of the analemma and the sun's azimuth at sunset at a given latitude?
I want to know how the sun's azimuth at sunset changes over the course of a year.
At first, I thought it would have purely sinusoidal motion, hitting its maxima and minima at the solstices, and ...
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Path of sun in the sky on a planet with no axial tilt
Some sources online (e.g. this, see section "Effect of Earth’s Eccentricity") claim that if the earth's axis was not tilted, then the analemma would have the shape of an ellipse/oval. I ...
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Why does the solar analemma have a strange shape on Jupiter?
I'm trying to look at what the solar analemma looks like from different planets, using Stellarium. To plot the analemma, I go into the ephemeris tab of the astronomical calculations window. From there,...
