Thank you, I was beginning to think the secret science police had
intercepted it. That's funny, "waining for over an hour", if you had
been "waxing for over an hour" would you have been gaining alertness
or getting less bored? or do I have the concepts backwards? ;-)
Does anybody know whether or not the small nightly circle of polaris
is in roughly the same spot every night or does it follow a larger
circle around the sky?
*/Allen Daves <allendaves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:
Ja,
Very nice drawing indeed!...I just now got it...I have been
waining for over a hour now for this mystery drawing everyone was
refereing to.....:)
*/j a <ja_777_aj@xxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:
Paul,
Glad to hear it's not long forgotten. Take your time, your
choice of discussing the axioms involved in formulating one's
mindset torwards creation or evolution was great idea.
Everyone,
Attached is a drawing illustraiting my understanding of what
we should see produced in star trails from the nightly and
annual axis of rotation. Since the baseline (distance from
observer to axis of rotation) is so small compared the
distance to the stars, I have basically made it zero length,
in order to get the drawing somewhat to scale. I added a star
A to the drawing to help my imagination, it could be any star
that would be very close to the annual axis of rotation.
Finally I made what it should look like if you took 24 nightly
star trail pictures (spaced semi-monthly) and superimposed
them on a single annual star trail. enough nightly star trails
superimposed together should form the outline of the annual.
Your comments please. I want to make sure I understand this
and do not have something basic wrong.
JA...
*/Paul Deema <paul_deema@xxxxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:
JA
Yes old man, you are so right!
You will be pleased to know (I just know you'll be pleased
to know!) that I have put in some effort -- two or three
nights at least -- but as you can see we are caught up in
a maelstrom at the moment and -- to mix a metaphor -- if
I let go of the tail now I will be left far behind.
It is proving difficult for me to get it all together (the
evolution paradigm thing) I just don't seem to be able to
take reasonably complex philosophical concepts and reduce
them to a single term for evaluation purposes any more but
I have not forgotten and will get back to it with any luck
at all.
I've extracted this from your post --
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.
No -- I'm afraid that won't work. You are confusing
parallax with the effects of differing axes of rotation.
Don't feel too bad though, there has been confusion enough
for all to get a share. I'm hoping my last two posts may
help clear things up.
Paul D
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