Image Description and Details :

A year-long project done! Here’s the product of several days of taking photos of the Sun from the same spot at the same time throughout the year and combining these images into one striking photo.

It’s called an analemma, a diagram of the Sun’s position in our sky that varies over the course of the year because of our planet’s tilt and elliptical orbit.
The loops resembling the figure of 8 actually represent the seasons we experience here in the Northern Hemisphere: the narrow loop shows where the Sun is traveling in our sky during the summer months (June-early September), while the bigger loop shows the position of the Sun during the winter months (December-early March).

I took the 43 photos of the Sun that made up this composite image. These were taken every week from January 9 to December 25, 2021, with the Ak Sadeem Observatory as the foreground element. Post-processed in Photoshop 2020.

Equipment used: Canon Ra DSLR, Tamron 14-24mm lens, Baader solar filter. Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Copyright: Aldrin B. Gabuya/Al Sadeem Observatory