analemma and equation of time: when first understood

Canopus wrote:

Mark Gingrich wrote in message ...

A good general reference site with animations can be found at:

http://www.analemma.com/Pages/framesPage.html

thanks. Unfortunately the animations require proprietary codecs.
I can't imagine why animated gifs wouldn't have done the job.

The above site also has illustrations of the analemmas on other planets.

Thanks, I get the idea of the shapes at least

Joe

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