The Sun’s surprising movement across the sky - Gordon Williamson
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Suppose you placed a camera at a fixed position, took a picture of the sky at the same time every day for an entire year, and overlaid all of the photos on top of each other. What would the sun look like in that combined image? A stationary dot? A circular path? Neither. Oddly enough, it makes a ‘figure 8’ pattern, known as the Sun’s analemma. Gordon Williamson explains why.
Describe how people could have used the Sun to set their clocks before the advent of modern time keeping.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Gordon Williamson
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Editor Franz Palomares
- Animation Artist Josephine Mark
- Composer Carlos Palomares
- Narrator Addison Anderson
