Lopsided eight is enough


Lip Ping (left) answering questions from students at an astronomy exhibition organised by the Heng Ee High School Astronomy Club. (Right pic) Lip Ping giving a presentation on his club’s weekly solar observation at the school. — Photos: WAN MOHIZAN WAN HUSSEIN/The Star

HENG Ee High School Astronomy Club has successfully recorded the first direct solar analemma in Malaysia.

Astronomy expert Assoc Prof Dr Chong Hon Yew said the shape of an analemma, which looks like a lopsided figure-8, shows the orbital motion of the Earth around the Sun in one year.

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