2019 September 28 - An Analemma of the Sun
Channel: APOD Podcast
Date: 28/09/2019

In today's image, we see an analemma of the Sun. This is the apparent position of the Sun in the sky in images taken at the same time of day of the course of a year. This forms a figure 8 pattern in the sky caused by the tilt of the Earth's axis and the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit.