Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Greetings, and a Happy Sunset Day to all! There's an interesting photo coming - read on. This is the day of the earliest sunset of the year in mid-northern latitudes like the USA where most Luggers hang their respective hats. From tomorrow, the sunsets begin, ever so slowly, to be later, according to clock time. However, where I am in Ireland the sunset will take another couple of days to reach that latitude's earliest one. However, to make up for that, all our the sunrises will continue to get later squeezing the daylight hours until we reach the 21st/22nd December - the shortest days of the year. This odd effect is caused by the tilting Earth in relationship explained here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma Here is the very first photograph of the phenomenon taken by Denis Di Ciccio over a year in 1978/9. His camera was stationary in the same spot at the same time of day for one year. https://petapixel.com/2011/09/20/more-people-have-walked-on-the-moon-than-have-captured-the-analemma/ However, I have no idea what camera lens combination was used. Douglas