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[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's beautiful, but unfortunately a fake. This is from a reddit comment for years ago:

This is supposed to represent a lunar analemma, but it's completely faked. And not just in the sense that it's a composite, in the sense that the relative sizes and positions are completely made up.

This is an actual analemma, with correct scaling:

[–] SuperSleuth@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Apologies, I am but a humble reposter and didn't check :⁠,⁠-⁠)

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

No worries, I was just checking if it was by the guy that usually shares his setups. But then I found the other thread instead