On Saturday, March 26, 2016 at 6:04:17 PM UTC, Davoud wrote:


Besides, I started this thread to ask a legitimate amateur-astronomy
question about a matter that I did not understand and the nut cases and
the pedants hijacked it. Thanks to Roland and to Chris Peterson for
sticking to the subject and helping me understand what I needed to
know!


Nothing legitimate about a question from a celestial sphere enthusiast who identifies himself in terms of being an astronomer, amateur or otherwise. Therein lies the problem for otherwise magnification guys and their hobby would be a harmless exercise with no pretense to anything other than spotting objects within a rotating celestial sphere but they can't help themselves use that framework to impose of the Earth's daily and orbital motion.

RA/Dec is a bomb going off in astronomy for while fine if all that is required is a means to gauge celestial motions in a homocentric format as it is a calendar based/ clockwork system but it is lethal for anything requiring the links between planetary dynamics and terrestrial sciences.

Nothing like an Easter Sunday dawn reminding people that they can create their own tombs in their heads and they can escape it by living beyond these self-imposed limitations. This Easter there is an actual Equinox dawn to consider as the Earth turns as a function of its orbital motion and has brought the Sun into view for the first time in 6 months.

Christianity doesn't end on the cross but in a garden just as Eden represents a mind free to consider the Universe they inherited for the short time they pass through existence.