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Stalking the Wily Analemma
avi33 writes "Wired has an article on the short list of photographers seeking to capture a shot of the analemma - the sun's figure-eight-shaped declination in the sky over the course of a year. Only a handful of people are known to have done this, and of course the obstacles are many: maintaining the equipment and its positioning, the finicky nature of film, the weather, and the photographer's persistence. Is it just me, or is this crying out for digital automation? Mount a cam to a hardpoint, have it snap a shot every x hours, and overlay them? Why I bet some of you could do this with a perl script in an afternoon. There's a shortage of photos from outside the northern hemisphere, so get busy."
Did anyone else read that as "analenema"?
Laboratree - Scientific collaboration based on OpenSocial.
As the editor of Sky & Telescope magazine during 1978-79...
I can't believe this has been modded up.
Exhibit 1: Slashdot user name "schoolsucks" and is proud of his new PS2, yet claims to have been an editor for a major scientific publication 25 years ago.
Exhibit 2: Does this look like the work of an editor for a major publication?
Exhibit 3: -1, Troll
OTOH, I almost thought it was cool enough to put him on my Friends list, so he had me going for a while, too...
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.