In this image, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/analemma" class="extiw" title="en:analemma">analemma</a> for planet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" class="extiw" title="en:Earth">Earth</a> is plotted with width highly exaggerated, which permits noticing that it is very slightly asymmetrical (due to the two-week misalignment of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/apsides" class="extiw" title="en:apsides">apsides</a> of the Earth's orbit and its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/solstices" class="extiw" title="en:solstices">solstices</a>).  On November 3 the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/equation_of_time" class="extiw" title="en:equation of time">equation of time</a> can be up to 16min 23sec fast; on February 12 it can be up to 14min 20sec slow.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Curps" class="extiw" title="en:User:Curps">User:Curps</a>
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Image generated June 18, 2004 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Curps" class="extiw" title="en:User:Curps">User:Curps</a> with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnuplot" class="extiw" title="en:Gnuplot">Gnuplot</a> and using altitude and azimuth data generated by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.html">JPL Horizons</a>.