Like I said it all depends on who you are and what you are interested in.

Also some people just like looking at the sky. They don't have to know how
it all works.

-JATO
http://jatobservatory.org


On 19 Jun 2005 02:39:44 -0700, wrote:

To JATO

This morning I found myself explaining to a participant here that it
is the Earth rotating in and out of its orbital shadow rather than
sunrise/sunset (which is the common currency among celestial
cataloguers) and I assure you that you cannot get any worse than that.

The Equation of Time principles which equalise Keplerian orbital motion
in order to facilitate the isolation of axial rotation from its
orbital motion was an exquisite outrigger developed by the early
heliocentrists and spured the development of accurate clocks based on
that motion.

This man walks away from what he imagines is astronomy but it is
really astrophotography he is walking away from, for no person or group
of people would adhere to inferior and cartoon conceptions when you
look out from the Earth and such things as what constitutes the value
for constant axial rotation,without which it is impossible to do
astronomy or much else where the motions of the Earth are concerned.

Ultimately astronomers are born insofar as it is an intuitive gift
therefore owning a telescope is a poor imitator in what it means to be
part of the great sweeping history of astronomy stretching back to
remote antiquity.No offense to JTaylor and many like him who know no
better,genuine astronomy and disciplines where accurate descriptions
of the Earth's motions are required are being starved by Newtonian
quasi-geocentricity and relativistic homocentricity,the most
anti-astronomy concepts ever to appear on the planet.

Jack here should read the fiction of H.G. Wells and satisfy himself
that he participated in an intellectual holocaust that reduced and
diluted the highest faculties of human reasoning, which are always
associated with astronomy, to a sci-fi and cartoon
cataloguing/theoretical conceptions.

No astronomer would stomach what passes under the astronomical name yet
the incredible consensus which supports a fictional astronomical view
owes much to Jack and fellow cataloguers.Whatever is left of his
life,his output so far is to destroy appreciation of the heliocentric
principles we inherited and so it goes for all anti-astronomy
participants here.

"'Now, it is very remarkable that this is so extensively
overlooked,' continued the Time Traveller, with a slight accession of
cheerfulness. 'Really this is what is meant by the Fourth Dimension,
though some people who talk about the Fourth Dimension do not know they
mean it. It is only another way of looking at Time. There is no
difference between time and any of the three dimensions of space except
that our consciousness moves along it. But some foolish people have got
hold of the wrong side of that idea. You have all heard what they have
to say about this Fourth Dimension?'"

http://www.bartleby.com/1000/1.html