That's fine Neville. What then do astronomers mean when they talk about the
pole star precessing?As I understand, it is a quick solution to some kind of
problem.
Jack
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Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 11:27
PM
Subject: [geocentrism] Re: Celestial
Poles Talk
Jack,
Just answering the technical questions in your post. Sorry
for the delay.
The way the stars should look is almost exactly like the
image shown in the lecture, with the pole being the south ecliptic pole and
the time period being 1 year. Perhaps I ought to have said in the lecture that
the clearest way of proving that this is not the case is the fact that the
celestial pole is always in the same place. In fact, this was well known from
way before the time of Kopernik, since navigation is based upon it.
As
for the angle between the pole star and the World at six-monthly intervals,
this is indeed extremely small, but is a parallax issue, rather than a
rotation axis issue.
Regards,
Neville.
