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Old September 25th 17, 03:53 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default Observed path of the Sun

On Monday, September 25, 2017 at 5:49:59 AM UTC-6, Gerald Kelleher wrote:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170319.html


That is out and out fraud


Well, it's true that they only took one frame per day, so it's always the same
time of day in Africa even though the movie shows a major part of a year.

So one has to understand that it eliminated the rotation of the Earth in order to
illustrate its point about the consequences of the Earth's orbital motion.

John Savard