On Monday, September 25, 2017 at 2:20:53 AM UTC+1, palsing wrote:
On Sunday, September 24, 2017 at 9:43:12 AM UTC-7, Gerald Kelleher wrote:
The heart does sink sometimes despite seeing the way through all this to the eventual recovery of astronomy. The rise of celestial sphere software was indeed rapid as were descriptions based on that clockwork generated and homocentric view -

https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/s...solarpaths.gif

Gerald, if you do not understand this extremely basic and easy-to-understand graphic then you have no business lecturing people about the dynamics of the Earth and Sun. This is drop-dead first-thing-you-learn in grammar school stuff...

Like everything else, the graphic is a fraud as are the people who promote it, a notion so abhorrent to reason that it takes really damaged individuals to go along with it -

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170319.html

I take pride in human reasoning but that, that represents something which would break a person's heart as it turns the RA/Dec version of the motion of the Sun into reality. To manipulate imaging in order to promote a pivoting circle of illumination is criminal and especially as it is done through the space agency.

As for you Paul, you feel nothing and that has been your problem all along.