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Old December 30th 03, 02:41 PM
Greg Hennessy
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In article ,
Oriel36 wrote:
By adopting the sidereal 'fixed stars' value for the rotation of the
Earth through 360 degrees,it creates a stellar circumpolar framework
and this makes it impossible to gauge the true nature of the changing
orientation of the remaining galaxies to local Milky Way reference
stars in their rotation around the galactic center.


You are aware, are you not, that astronomers use an inertial reference
frame based on the optical and radio postions of distance quasars, to
prevent just such errors?

And if you aren't aware of that, why haven't you paid attention when I
have told you this at least four times over the past year?