{"id":268,"date":"2010-04-13T23:16:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T23:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=268"},"modified":"2010-04-13T23:16:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T23:16:26","slug":"the-suns-path-from-june-to-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/13\/the-suns-path-from-june-to-december\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sun\u2019s path from June to December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last June, Help My Physics placed some <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Photographic film\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Photographic_film\">photographic film<\/a> into a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tin\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tin\">tin<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Canister shot\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canister_shot\">canister<\/a> with a small hole punched into its side. The tin canister was then attached to a clothes pole in their back garden and left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pinholecamerajd09.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1376\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/pinholecamerajd09\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/pinholecamerajd09.jpg?fit=594%2C510&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"594,510\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Sun&amp;#8217;s path via a pinhole camera\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/pinholecamerajd09.jpg?fit=594%2C510&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1376\" title=\"The Sun's path via a pinhole camera\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pinholecamerajd09.jpg?resize=594%2C510\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This afternoon I fetched the canister and took the photographic film out. My son John scanned the photographic film and with the aid of some <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Image\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image\">image<\/a> software made the image negative. The result is the picture above. The picture clearly shows the path of the sun through the sky over the last six months. I believe you can see we didn&#8217;t have a great summer by the broken lines at the top. More sun shone in the month of October.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=276\" target=\"blank\">Help My Physics<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last June, Help My Physics placed some photographic film into a tin canister with a small hole punched into its side. The tin canister was then attached to a clothes pole in their back garden and left. This afternoon I fetched the canister and took the photographic film out. My son John scanned the photographic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,17,25,27],"tags":[92,273,287,582,893,996,1015,1133,1499,1824,2366],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-awesomeness","category-linkage","category-photographs","category-science","tag-92","tag-april","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-canister-shot","tag-deep-impact","tag-earth","tag-education","tag-film","tag-image","tag-long-exposure-photography","tag-physics","post_format-post-format-image","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-4k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}