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Old October 12th 18, 07:37 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Gerald Kelleher
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Default A more intimate astronomy

It could have been a more advanced astronomy but generally people assume there is something difficult when phrased that way. To break a celestial sphere mold that has stood for a number of centuries won't appeal to everyone but for those who can, going directly to a central and stationary Sun (at least for solar system perspectives) and bouncing observations off that perspective gives more substance to astronomical appreciation.

Only on rare occasions do people see the whole picture of a central Sun and the relationship of planets close to it when the moon acts like a sunscreen during an eclipse -

http://en.es-static.us/upl/2016/11/r...7595696172.jpg

So,with every twilight or dawn it is when people get the same effect as an eclipse where the distance from observer to horizon acts as a sunscreen for events close to the Sun with particular emphasis on the smaller circumferences and faster motions of Venus and Mercury as they run actual loops of the Sun.

https://www.universetoday.com/wp-con...Dec27-2013.jpg


It is not so much that these things beg attention for surely they do but not in a way that it is a take it or leave it proposition. They knock on the door of perception and while some people let them in enthusiastically, some people have other things going and count them as nothing.






 




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