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Blues Heron

(8,844 posts) Sat Dec 20, 2025, 09:44 PM Dec 2025

Yes and if you imagine the whole shape rising and setting each day with the sun on it somewhere

You can see that the side of it near the bottom hits the horizon first. The sun is at that spot on the figure eight around December 8, the earliest sunset

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