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I feel I should explain myself a bit. Well, maybe not myself so much as the analemma. After all it’s pretty weird. Why does the Sun make a figure of eight over a year of middays?

Here’s where I’ll try to explain it, with graphs and stuff.

First up, the Sun is higher in the sky in summer and lower in winter. This is obvious and we all see it every year: that miserable low Sun in winter that sets at four and barely warms you, the high hot Sun in summer that hangs overhead all afternoon.