Analemma of the Moon

If we observe the Sun the from day to day the same time (e.g.: 8 AM. or at noon or 4 PM.) we may spot it nearly the same direction. However its position in Winter is lower in the sky, in Summer it’s higher and there are some periodic movements towards West and East because the Earth is orbiting around the Sun in elliptical orbit. If we capture the phenomena and overlay these photos, our Sun slowly draws the famous Celestial Number Eight in a year. The recent years analemma photo projects have become very popular amongst amateur astronomers and photographers, there are completed photos published almost every months including analemma-curves behind wonderful foregrounds. Our Moon needs days (24 hours 50 minutes 29 seconds) in average to reach the same point in the sky to consecutive times. We might say this is the length of the “Moon-day“. In case the weather and the clouds allow and we photograph the Moon 50 minutes and
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