On Sep 22, 7:06*pm, palsing wrote:
On Saturday, September 22, 2012 9:43:05 AM UTC-7, oriel36 wrote:
With hundreds of billions of dollar worth of graphical resources

across many thousands of research institutions including NASA,is it

too much trouble to ask one responsible person familiar with graphics

to set this image in motion in order to project a more accurate and

more enjoyable explanation for the Equinox -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_precession.svg

There you go again, using that graphic that demonstrates PRECESSION, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the Equinox... nothing at all! Note that there are stars in the background... STARS! The graphic shows the Earth's axis moving WRT the stars, which is certainly does, over the course of 26,000 years. Over the course of a single year that axis moves NOT AT ALL, it points at Polaris constantly.

It also changes to the central Sun as it is carried around by the
orbital behavior of the planet and so easy to ascertain using a simple
analogy and the aid of planetary comparisons.

What an amazing sight it will be when they train a telescope from the
surface of Mars towards the Earth,the phases it will witness and the
turning of the polar coordinates through the circle of illumination
just as we now can train a telescope on Venus -

http://www.masil-astro-imaging.com/S...age%20flat.jpg

No mean spirited and dour individual will ever appreciate the
spectacle for even though Uranus presently supplies the same
information,the response from the community has been less than
acceptable.



You are using a graphic that is completely inappropriate for the
point you are trying (and failing miserably) to demonstrate.

Here is your graphic again, this time with an actual explanation of what it represents...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...1009909249_441...

\Paul

After your assertion this morning that the change in orientation in
the polar coordinates of Uranus is due to orbital perspectives in
tandem with the Earth's orbital motion,I think you have done enough
for one day but take comfort that others are not much better given
that Uranus is roughly 17 times further than the Earth is from the Sun
hence the East/West motion is integral to the planet just as its South
to North daily rotation is.