Hey everybody,
I got way behind on the emails and has taken me awhile to get caught up. Looks like we are in really exciting territory here. Let me restate this "proof" as I understand it.
If A-centricity is true then the nightly rotation of earth produces the star trails we have all seen. If Geo-centricity is true then the nightly rotation of the stars produces the star trails. There is no way to pick between the two, the nightly star trails do not tell us which centricity is true.
If A-centricity is true than there should be a star trail produced by the annual rotaton of earth about the sun. If Geo-centricity is true than there would be no annual start trail (unless there was a yearly movement of the stars also). The Annual A-centric star trail would be different from the nightly, because the axis of rotation is ~23 degrees in another direction, such that polaris, instead of
being right next to the axis (in the nightly circle) is ~23 degrees from the annual axis and would produce a larger circle, instead of the nightly small circle.
So if Polaris does not produce a large annual star trail (corresponding to being ~23 degrees from the axis), than A-centrism is false.
It has been stated that this annual star trail does not exist. Has anyone recorded an annual star trail??? I want to see the picture! If we superimposed 2 nightly star trail photos from 6 months apart (erase all circles except polaris for simplicity) we should see the center of the two nightly circles of polaris ~23 degrees apart, if they are not, then we have our proof positive of the falsity of A-centrism.
JA
PS. Paul, don't let your excitement over this cause you to forget our other topic were I am awaiting your comments. No hurry,
just reminding you.
