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Earth's Rotational Axis Has Shifted
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A little while ago, Venus was in the WNW at sunset. Now, at this time (check the time stamp), Venus is just South of West. This malady must have fixed itself. |
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Earth's Rotational Axis Has Shifted
On Jul 25, 4:46*am, "Litus Arare" wrote:
Update: A little while ago, Venus was in the WNW at sunset. *Now, at this time (check the time stamp), Venus is just South of West. This malady must have fixed itself. * Au contraire. Now we have two Venuses and two sunsets to worry about! ;-) |
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Earth's Rotational Axis Has Shifted???
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, Giga2 wrote: snip [... T]he sun is setting almost exactly due north (20.55). I am at roughly 50n degrees in the UK. Is that normal? This was almost completely north, maybe 10-15 degrees West of due North at the most. JFTR that can't be right. (Sorry to bring up an old thread -- just now catching up on my reading ...) Unless you were in northwestern Scotland or the Orkneys, the sun wouldn't have set as late as that; from 50°N (Lizard Point, Cornwall? -- I assume the south coust of England, anyway) its bearing at sunset would have been about 55° W of North, and it wouldn't get as far north as you said until near the end of astronomical twilight. Did you actually see the disc cross the horizon? During twilight low clouds can remain illuminated from beneath, and it's possible that one such might look as if the sun were behind it. -- Odysseus |
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