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Old February 28th 08, 07:19 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default The completion of the calendrical year (1461 days)

One of the sublime human achievements is the creation of the equable
24 hour day and subsequently the calculation of the annual orbital
cycle of 365 days 5 hours 49 minutes,the great timekeeping astronomers
then attached the fraction to the nearest 24 hour day and subsequently
we have the 1461 day calendrical cycle of 3 years of 365 days and 1
year of 366 days.The ability to take a natural orbital cycle and
transfer it to a linear system of years.

The great calendrical convenience was never meant to encompass the
system which creates the 24 hour day out of the inequalities of
natural noon and transfer it to constellational geometry and its
apparent motion for otherwise it becomes an act of vandalism against
the great timekeeping astronomers.

When a star returns to the same position 3 minutes 56 seconds earlier
on Feb 29th when using the 24 hours from Feb 28th,it must cross a good
person's mind that there is a lovely interlocking and intricate
system created by people in antiquity and refined by civilisation
after civilisation until ours.

There is no need for timekeeping astronomy to dictate structural
astronomy,the last great adaption was the transfer of the equable 24
hour cycle to axial rotation as a convenient 'constant' thereby
allowing watches to be used to measure distance at 4 minutes for 1
degree of geographical seperation making 24 hours circling the 360
degree planet.It was a mistake to use clocks to gauge axial rotation
to the motion of the celestial sphere and it is on Feb 29th that the
mistake becomes most apparent.

Celebrate the leap correction as a great convenience,something that
honors the astronomers from antiquity and do so as astronomers.





 




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