Thread: The awful pivot
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Old September 20th 18, 09:27 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Gerald Kelleher
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Default The awful pivot

May as well highlight the awful price of the solar vs sidereal fiction in the heads of those who seem to despise astronomy and each other.

There is no separate rotation to the Sun as opposed to a celestial sphere of stars (solar vs sidereal) as sanity and common sense should intervene and acknowledge the Sun coming into view followed by the stars as a single seamless rotation creating the day/night cycle.

There is, however, a second day/night cycle ( Polar) where the Sun comes into view at the North/South Poles with a sunrise on the Equinox followed by the stars after the opposite Equinox. There is a separate rotation creating this spectacle as the planet turns unevenly to the orbital plane and, in combination with daily rotation, is observed as the variation in the noon cycle.

Since remote antiquity, humanity has marked the Sun coming into view at dawn and at sunset on the Equinox as the great stone monuments built bu communities capture the event -

https://www.knowth.com/loughcrew-equinox.htm

Here we are in the 21st century with imaging of Polar sunrise and nobody wants to know about the planet's two distinct day/night cycles.

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/antarctica/south-pole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okw6Mu3mxdM


I can excuse the zombie intellects of those who have their own thing going but surely that condition can't be entirely prevalent unless people are afraid of being bullied as it appears happened recently.