{"id":177,"date":"2009-04-26T13:04:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T12:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=177"},"modified":"2009-04-26T13:04:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T12:04:02","slug":"charting-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Charting the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/pinhole.jpg\" alt=\"The path of the Sun taken over six months with a pin hole camera.\" title=\"pinhole\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/pinhole.jpg 400w, https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/pinhole-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After discovering that our Sun is at its dimmest in over a century I was enthused by this piece of news on how to chart the Sun`s journey over the sky during six months, using a home made pin hole camera.<br \/>\nThe picture above shows the shallow arc of the Sun`s passing during winter while the tallest arc is that of the Sun passing during the summer months.<br \/>\nIt is a fabulous experiment which could be set up in any school yard and there is so much that could be gained from such a project.<br \/>\nThe instructions and original article are in the links below. Happy Sun charting!<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/lucy_davies\/blog\/2008\/09\/09\/watermelons_and_wheelie_bins_a_guide_to_pinhole_photography\">News article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinholephotography.org\/Solargraph%20instructions.htm\">Instructions<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After discovering that our Sun is at its dimmest in over a century I was enthused by this piece of news on how to chart the Sun`s journey over the sky during six months, using a home made pin hole camera. The picture above shows the shallow arc of the Sun`s passing during winter while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}