Translations:Cosmos/Moon/Orbit/3/en

Lunar Analemma

When making lunar analemma, we have to take pictures with a delay of 50 minutes and 29 seconds for each day for a lunar month. Because for the moon it takes 24 hours 50 minutes and 29 seconds to reach the same position after each day. This means that if we start today at 9:00 pm we should take the photograph of tomorrow at 9:50:29 pm. Also with the moon, we would capture both, it’s the position in the sky and its phases. Astronomer Gyorgy Soponyai captured the above image from March 26 to April 18.