12 Dec Forget the Solstice – Today’s the Analemma!
Did you have a model globe in your house when you were growing up? I remember spending hours examining the globe, the vast oceans, the continents and the countries. I noticed that on a particularly open part of the seas, usually the southern ocean, was what looked like a big figure 8. At the time, I didn't pay it much attention. Now, however, I now know why it was there, and what it is: the "analemma." As a year-around cyclist, winter...