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Credit & Copyright: Josö Zarcos Palma
Explanation:
A single 183 day exposure with a pinhole camera and photographic paper
resulted in this long-duration
solargraph.
Recorded from
solstice to solstice,
June 21 to December 21, in 2022,
it follows the Sun's daily arcing path
through planet Earth's skies from Mertola, Portugal.
On June 21,
the Sun's highest point and longest arc represents the longest
day and the astronomical beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere.
The solstice date with the fewest hours of daylight is at
the beginning of winter in the north,
corresponding to the Sun's shortest and lowest arc in the 2022 solargraph.
For 2023, the northern winter solstice was on December 22 at 3:27 UTC.
That's
December 21
for North America time zones.
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