On Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 3:51:23 AM UTC+1, palsing wrote:
On Monday, April 9, 2018 at 2:20:50 PM UTC-7, Gerald Kelleher wrote:

Wish the nuisances would stay to their own threads.

And I assure you that we nuances feel exactly the same about you...

To be fair to you, you are more restrained than the actual nuisances who think they are doing everyone a favor by spraying graffiti on a genuine point.

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/kenya/nairobi

With the stars in view from sunset to sunrise and the Sun in view from sunrise to sunset , what is a more natural way to appreciate one rotation of the Earth as the most immediate experience of the cycle you, I and everyone else lives by -

https://bioneuroblog.files.wordpress...04/orobio4.png


I don't fault the people who drew the wrong conclusion back in the late 17th century as it give you the excellent predictive framework of RA/Dec however it compounded a fundamental question that was central to the Galileo affair -

Can the system which predicts astronomical events also be used for planetary dynamics and solar system structure through observations ?.

The answer is found in your inability to affirm that the data in a simple sunrise/sunset/sunrise values represents a single rotation of the Earth.