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01-28-2017, 08:11 PM | #1 | ||
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Jan 29th, 2017: Solar Analemma
The Solar Analemma sounds like an energy efficient enema, but it's not.
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01-28-2017, 11:29 PM | #2 |
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That's groovy baby
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01-29-2017, 08:14 AM | #4 |
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http://epod.usra.edu/ has 9 pages of search results for analemma in their own archives! They LOVE those things . The one shown here appears to have a single extremely exceptional detail--on the left, just near where the crossover that makes it a "figure 8" shape, appears to be a solar eclipse.
The kind of full-year-to-set-up photo that blows me away most is one I've seen just 2 or 3 times on EPoD...someone takes a photo from the same angle at the same time every day, and at the end of the year they process it so a single vertical line of pixels from each frame (hence the need for extreme camera-location stability) is used to assemble a full-year landscape. I wish I could remember the name of the technique... |
01-29-2017, 11:41 AM | #5 |
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Not buying the only 20 people claim.
It has been 40 years since the first one. |
01-29-2017, 11:55 AM | #6 |
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Why not, Jim? If 20 people have been proven to have done it, and it's so difficult to do, why would you go to the trouble and expense to do it yourself? Because it's there? It's also on the net. It's much easier to do the Moon, that only takes a month, and less equipment.
You're right Snake, there is an eclipse in there.
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01-29-2017, 12:29 PM | #7 |
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Could climbing Mount Everest be any easier, safer or cheaper?
Around six thousand have done that. I guess because it's there. |
01-29-2017, 12:53 PM | #8 |
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But you don't need a camera to climb Everest.
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02-06-2017, 04:19 PM | #9 |
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I am disappoint in this thread.
When I read "Anal Emma", I was expecting porn. And/or Emma.
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02-06-2017, 04:22 PM | #10 |
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Also, not buying the "only 20 people" bit.
Out of 7,000,000,000+ ppl?
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02-06-2017, 08:31 PM | #11 |
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Have you done it? Do you know anyone who's done it? Have you heard of anyone who's done it? Have you ever heard of anyone who would want to do it? If you do, ask them why the fuck they would even contemplate it?
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02-07-2017, 07:11 AM | #12 |
To shreds, you say?
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I believe it. Even if you can dedicate gear to sit there all year long, or you have the precision of a Swiss watchmaker to get your gear set up exactly the same way each time, and the weather cooperates with you, the likelihood is that it won't work out properly. Well, there's always next year...
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02-07-2017, 07:17 AM | #13 |
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Thinking about it, it's a pain in the ass to do. There's the technical aspect of it and the time aspect. the technical aspect would be fun for a week. But the time aspect...
It's like a prison sentence. Forget about taking a vacation that year, or visiting family. Sorry. Gotta stay home and tend my camera. Actually, reminds me of being a farmer who is tied to the land. Gotta milk those cows. Every. single. day. |
02-07-2017, 09:46 AM | #14 |
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And for what? No fame or fortune, show it to someone and they ask if those were the same drones they used at the superbowl.
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02-09-2017, 03:42 PM | #15 |
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Or ya could set up your computer controlled camera set to take a pic at 2:30 every afternoon.
For a year. And hope the cat doesn't knock it over. And hope for a lot of clear days. And hope the electricity doesn't go out. And hope. And hope.
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