Because of the Earth revolves around the Sun in an elliptical orbit and is not a perfectly circular, and because the earth is tilted on its axis (this creates seasons) a person taking this of kind of picture sees whats called an analemma pattern which takes one whole year to create.
gDisasters on June 25th, 2017 at 13:03 UTC »
Because of the Earth revolves around the Sun in an elliptical orbit and is not a perfectly circular, and because the earth is tilted on its axis (this creates seasons) a person taking this of kind of picture sees whats called an analemma pattern which takes one whole year to create.
If anyone wants to check out a higher res photo, here you go: https://i.imgur.com/UBkGBAj.jpg
edit: a word, courtesy of u/ozonelayer101
edit 2: credit to Cenk E. Tezel & Tunc Tezel
firebrand581 on June 25th, 2017 at 15:31 UTC »
We can figure out the camera's latitude from this, right?
jediintraining_ on June 25th, 2017 at 15:45 UTC »
Maybe I'm missing something, but if the sun is this high, why is only the horizon bright?