"palsing" wrote in message
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On Sunday, August 10, 2014 5:32:14 PM UTC-7, oriel36 wrote:
Observers in the Northern hemisphere looking towards the Equator and
watching the daily arc of the Sun from horizon to horizon will see the
familiar arc in the opposite direction to circumpolar motion while
watching the seasonal variations in that arc -



http://www.astronomy.org/programs/se...-sun-sm.gif744

Your link does not work, but even you are not so stupid that you can't see
with your own eyes that both the Sun and the moon and the stars ALL rise in
the east and set in the west, all day, every day; even planets in retrograde
rise in the east and set in the west.

Even though circumpolar objects don't actually rise or set (being, well,
circumpolar), they still appear to rotate around the pole in the same
direction as everything else, that is, east-to-west, even during inferior
culmination...

Think a little more before you speak.

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Ahem...
What Kelleher is trying to say is either
1) it takes longer for the Sun to cross the arc than it does the stars
(solar v sidereal) and even longer than that for the Moon which is moving
West to East, so the Sun and Moon move in the opposite direction RELATIVELY
to the (circumpolar) stars, or
2) Facing South the Sun moves left to right, but facing North it moves right
to left.


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