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Old April 19th 18, 08:59 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default Averaging and the Equation of Time

On Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 7:02:07 AM UTC-6, wrote:

As usual, it is hard to tell what you think you are talking about, but noon
moves around quite a bit within the 24 hour day, as much as 16 minutes.


He is well aware of that fact.

He just objects to people who prefer (or attribute unwarranted significance to)
the "sidereal day", which he refers to as "stellar circumpolar motion", to the
natural noon cycle when describing the motions of the Earth - simply because it
conforms better to mechanical clock time.

Basically, he doesn't think that anyone needs to use arithmetic or mathematics
in connection the Earth's motions; he never does that, he just relies on
inspiration, intuition, and spiritual feelings when he does (what he calls)
astronomy, and so he doesn't see why anyone else would have to do otherwise.

John Savard