Nevile,....Roberts comments here on parallax are a more detailed braekdown of the comments i made back in sep on star trails and Paralax....Robert nails pretty good...... //www.freelists.org/archives/geocentrism/09-2007/msg00284.html -----Original Message----- From: allendaves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:11:42 -0700 (PDT) ................................ but the point about parallax would give us a independent variable for understanding what does and could not cause parallax in the background stars.....if no wobble then there would have to be some other perhaps as suggested before intrinsic motion to the stars..that expiation would no longer be "convenient" since the proof of no rotation around the secondary north celestial axis is independent of the whole parallax issue, thus the issue of convenience or coincident is made moot. But now we know what does not cause parallax in the most distance stars....and in either case it cant be due to the earth going around the sun nor can it be due to a wobble of the stars around a centered earth.(inserted here for clarification " the Modified tyconican model")..we can isolate any potential wobble to just the sun and the planetary system....i think this is significant. I do not follow what it is that you are trying to say. Let me think about this. Neville Neville Jones <njones@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: All, I have received privately a well-considered piece by Dr. Bennett, which I think should be shared with you because of its relevance to our discussions. Although I do not usually post things on the forum without our being able to respond to the author directly and publicly, yet this is an exception. Neville www.GeocentricUniverse.com Robert Bennett wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:44:58 -0500 Neville, On your forum you asked: ?. Should you see the same sort of star trails? ??.. Robert B, where are you when we need you? Sounds just like my wife! Let?s review the HC & GC views. HC says the stars are all considered fixed, inc. the Sun. They all have actual motions in space, but are too far distant for their small radial and proper motions to be noted w/o professional equipment. The star trails produced by the earth?s rotation about the N-S poles would all be circles with sidereal day periods ?. If the cosmos were geocentric. The earth?s revolution in solar orbit produces an additional seasonal N-S shift (due to the 230 axial tilt) in the trails of nearby cosmic objects in the solar system. The distant stars in the Milky Way move N-S annually , just as the Sun and planets do, but their angle of oscillation is not 23 degrees, but millions of times smaller: their angle is inversely proportional to their distance. For stars in near space, the annual shift is of the order of mas ? milli arc secs. This of course is stellar parallax, visible only to astronomers. One stellar parallax is visible and obvious? the Sun?s. So you are correct, Neville, that the E-W star trails should be influenced by the earth?s annual revolution, but only the Sun?s modified star trail is visible to the unaided eye. GWW shows that parallax measures motion relative to a reference point or line, which is assumed to be at rest. Parallax can?t be used to establish absolute motion, because of the fixed reference point assumption. The MS claims - that parallax proves HC - are arguing in a circle, assuming true what is to be proven. HC cosmic motions are never actual, but only appearances due to the earth?s rotation and revolution. We see nothing as it is! GC says all the celestial motions are as observed ? without correction - and caused by the invisible firmament, composed of a hierarchy of rotating and inflowing aether vortices. All objects are in the sidereal vortex, but local whirlpools cause clustering to form binary pairs, star clusters and galaxies?. and the solar system vortex, centered on Sol. All local gravity and inertial fields can be explained as a local aether vortex. The Sun and Moon are in the earth?s vortex, but the stars have two options within the neoTychonian model. <!--[if !supportLists]-->1. <!--[endif]-->The stars can be centered on the Sun (Scripture neither supports nor denies this) , explaining the observed stellar parallax as due to the Sun?s orbit of the earth. In both GC and HC, then, parallax is due to the offset of the observer from the center of stellar rotation by 1 AU. or <!--[if !supportLists]-->2. <!--[endif]-->The stars can be centered on earth, and the individual parallaxes are attributed to the specific aether vortex of each star (He knows them all by name). Note that parallax is used in HC to determine stellar distances. If aether is causing parallax, then stellar distance is independent of parallax angle, and MS doesn?t know the near star distances. Also note that MS can?t say that parallax determines distance unless they can show that distance variation is the only possible cause for parallax.