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Old May 20th 17, 07:13 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Gerald Kelleher
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Default Heliacal events and eclipse

Old men with convictions based on wordplays have nothing but anger,hatred and complaining for company.

One of the loveliest narratives is that the foundations of timekeeping are founded on the transition of the stars from an evening appearance to a dawn appearance just as the inner planets make the same transition as they run their circuits, the difference being that the inner planets also move from left to right behind the Sun along with size and luminosity variations -

http://www.popastro.com/images/plane...ary%202012.jpg

The incremental change in position of the planets and the stars seen from the surface of a moving Earth to the central Sun removes the last vestiges of the geocentric system and seen in a wonderful graphic -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdFrE7hWj0A


There is no such thing as the 'fixed stars', some stars are above us in the scheme of galactic orbital motion, some below, some closer the galactic center and some ahead of us and some further out towards the galactic edge but with the dominance of rotating celestial sphere enthusiasts this huge area of research falls victim to the intellectually and conceptually impotent.