The world is here on Instagram: "What a Solar Analemma Is A solar analemma is the pattern you get when you photograph the Sun from the same place at the same time every day for a year. Instead of staying in one spot, the Sun traces a clean figure-8 curve in the sky. Why the Sun Makes a Figure-8 : The shape happens because: • Earth is tilted → the Sun appears higher in some months and lower in others. • Earth orbits the Sun → the Sun shifts slightly east or west depending on where Earth is in its