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https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11353
This is where celestial sphere enthusiasm and modeling gets you all - a monstrosity that offers nothing but intellectual damnation. |
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On Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 3:18:49 PM UTC-7, Gerald Kelleher wrote:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11353 This is where celestial sphere enthusiasm and modeling gets you all - a monstrosity that offers nothing but intellectual damnation. That is indeed an unusual orientation for a view "from space". The Sun doesn't bounce up and down. So the pattern of light on the Earth is shown... with the camera being oriented in a constant direction from the viewpont of people on Earth. While this makes a point, the page is about the "reason" for the seasons, not merely the facts of the seasons. If there were a series of Mercator maps showing times of sunrise and sunset for the year, the fact that the continents would be in the same place on all of them, and the colored overprinting showing night and twilight changes would not be remarkable. But this *appears* to show how things look _from space_, not _on Earth_, and so you indeed have a valid point that it can be misleading in some respects. Instead, they should have begun with photographs where the direction of the Sun is consistent, or even diagrams showing the Earth moving from one side of the Sun to the other, and only then go to the rotated versions of the photos. John Savard |
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The tsunami of websites carrying RA/Dec modeling within the last few years is quite a spectacle. The seasons are a result of two surface rotations to the Sun acting in combinations yet because celestial sphere software has emerged as a dominant tool, the descriptions have followed suit when I thought it was simply an anomaly by a NASA technician.
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily...-seasonal.html The Moon's circle of illumination always runs parallel with the Earth's as the axiom is that the circle of illumination is always at a right angle to the orbital plane - https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/system/...Earth_Moon.jpg How a society strayed into something worse than a flat Earth ideology should occupy the efforts of many people who can exercise their basic intuitive qualities to recognise what is beautiful from what is absurd. An Earth with a zero degree inclination and a pivoting circle of illumination as a dynamic turns the mind to stone yet it is supported as though it was actual !. I thought people would at least have some pride in astronomy left but this will mark our era as the worst if it remains unchallenged. |
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On Friday, March 8, 2019 at 3:31:58 AM UTC-7, Gerald Kelleher wrote:
The seasons are a result of two surface rotations to the Sun acting in combinations And we've all turned to stone because we phrase it differently, we call it the combination of the Earth's rotation with the change in the direction to the Sun caused by the Earth's orbit around the Sun. That way we don't have to have the Earth's rotation slowing down and speeding up. John Savard |
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