Re: Equinox Analemma

2018-09-23 Thread Bill Gottesman
I feel better now. -Bill On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 1:02 PM Steve Lelievre < steve.lelievre.can...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bill, > > NASA has corrected the page since your post. Now it says "The featured > analemma was composed from images taken every few days at noon". > > Steve > > > On 2018-09-23 7:

Re: Equinox Analemma

2018-09-23 Thread Steve Lelievre
Bill, NASA has corrected the page since your post. Now it says "The featured analemma was composed from images taken every few days at noon". Steve On 2018-09-23 7:58 AM, Bill Gottesman wrote: The NASA page says the photos were taken at 4PM, but it sure looks like they were taken at mean so

RE: Equinox Analemma

2018-09-23 Thread Jack Aubert
I had the same reaction. I think the NASA page is simply mistaken. Either that or the image was edited to make it vertical. Jack Aubert From: sundial On Behalf Of Bill Gottesman Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2018 10:59 AM To: Robert Terwilliger Cc: Sundials List Subject: Re: Equinox

Re: Equinox Analemma

2018-09-23 Thread Bill Gottesman
The NASA page says the photos were taken at 4PM, but it sure looks like they were taken at mean solar noon (because the analemma is vertical). Does anyone have an explanation for this? -Bill On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 10:38 AM Robert Terwilliger wrote: > Astronomy Picture of the Day > > > > https:

Equinox Analemma

2018-09-23 Thread Robert Terwilliger
Astronomy Picture of the Day https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180923.html --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial