• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This is what early astronomers thought the orbit was. They believed the earth to be the center of the universe, and couldn’t explain the strange orbits of the stars and planets.

  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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    2 months ago

    You know you spend way too much time on the internet. When your first though at seeing the top of the loop is that it’s going to be a penis made out of the sun moving around.

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    2 months ago

    So can someone who is more familiar with this subject answer, “Are these pictures taken at the same time of day with or without seasonal adjustments to time (Daylight Savings Time, etc.)?”

    I understand why the sun would move vertically over the year due to the tilt of the Earth, but what causes the horizontal movement?

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    2 months ago

    Nnnnnnggggg!!

    This is highly infuriating! The sun keeps narrowly missing taking out the church spire.

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    2 months ago

    Neat. I naturally assume the very few apparent gaps are due to bad/cloudy weather on those particular days…

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    1 month ago

    The analemma.
    Then since that 8-figure is diagonal, the earliest sunset and latest sunrise are about two weeks on either side of the shortest day of the year. Same in summer with the latest sunset and earliest sunrise being a couple of weeks on either side of the longest day.