Happy new year! Another year means another year-long keogram! Every 15 seconds throughout 2022, my trusty all-sky camera took a picture of the sky above the Netherlands. Combining these 2.1 million images into a year-long keogram reveals this picture, which shows the length of the night change throughout the year (the hourglass shape), when the Moon was visible at night (diagonal bands), and the Sun higher in the sky during summer, as well as lots and lots of clouds passing overhead.

@cgbassa It's interesting that the hourglass isn't symmetrical the "daytime" dimension, although the entire hourglass seems rotationally symmetric.

In the first half of the year, it looks like sunrise changes more rapidly whereas in the second half it's sunset that does.

I've seen that in sunrise/sunset times directly as well, but I don't remember why it is.

@davidr The asymmetry is mostly due to the slightly eccentric orbit of the Earth around the Sun. Hence near perihelion the Earth moves faster in its orbit, resulting in the Sun culminating early in the beginning of January and moving slower and culminating later in July when the Earth is near aphelion. This effect is called the Equation of Time, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time.
Equation of time - Wikipedia