标签: solstice

夏至的满月

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珊蒂与月晕

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十二月的仲夏夜

2023年12月23日 A December Summer Night Image Credit & Copyright: Ian Griffin (Otago Museum) Explanation: Colours of a serene evening sky are captured in this 8 minute exposure, made near this December’s solstice from New Zealand, southern hemisphere, planet Earth. Looking south, star trails form the short concentric arcs around the rotating planet&#8...

阳光下的183天

2023年12月22日 183 Days in the Sun Image Credit & Copyright: José Zarcos Palma Explanation: A single 183 day exposure with a pinhole camera and photographic paper resulted in this long-duration solargraph. Recorded from solstice to solstice, June 21 to December 21, in 2022, it follows the Sun’s daily arcing path through planet Earth’s skies fro...

南半球下午的日行迹

2023年9月23日 Afternoon Analemma Image Credit & Copyright: Ian Griffin (Otago Museum) Explanation: An analemma is that figure-8 curve you get when you mark the position of the Sun at the same time each day for one year. To make this one, a 4×5 pinhole camera was set up looking north in southern New Zealand skies. The shutter was briefly opened each cl...

三条日轨

2023年6月21日 Three Sun Paths Image Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia Pace & Giuseppe De Donà Explanation: Does the Sun follow the same path every day? No. The Sun’s path changes during the year, tracing a longer route during the summer than the winter. Pictured here, the Sun’s arc was captured from noon to sunset on three days, from hig...

北纬63度的日晕

2022年12月21日 Sun Halo at Sixty-three Degrees North Image Credit & Copyright: Goran Strand Explanation: Happy Solstice! Today is the December solstice, marking an astronomical beginning of summer in the southern hemisphere and winter in the north. On its yearly trek through planet Earth’s skies, at this solstice the Sun reaches its southern most dec...

秋分: 卡拉尼什巨石阵上空的日行迹

2022年9月18日 Analemma over the Callanish Stones Image Credit & Copyright: Giuseppe Petricca Explanation: If you went outside at the same time every day and took a picture that included the Sun, how would the Sun’s position change? A more visual answer to that question is an analemma, a composite image taken from the same spot at the same time over t...

台北上空的日行迹

2022年6月21日 Analemma over Taipei Image Credit & Copyright: Meiying Lee Explanation: Does the Sun return to the same spot on the sky every day? No. A better and more visual answer to that question is an analemma, a composite of images taken at the same time and from the same place over the course of a year. The featured analemma was compiled at 4:30 pm ma...

2021年的天空

2022年3月21日 The Sky in 2021 Image Credit & Copyright: Cees Bassa (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy) Explanation: What if you could see the entire sky — all at once — for an entire year? That, very nearly, is what is pictured here. Every 15 minutes during 2021, an all-sky camera took an image of the sky over the Netherlands. Central c...