Re: Starmapping software


"oriel36" <geraldkelleher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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OG wrote:

The return of a star to a meridian in 23 hours 56 minutes and 04
seconds is based on a 1461 day cycle of 3 years of 365 days and 1 year
of 366 days.

Goodness me, how hard you make things.


Clearly, the return of a star to a meridian in 23 hours 56 minutes and 04
seconds is based on the cycle that returns a star to the meridian in 23
56
04 which is the rotation of the earth.


The astrophotographers can promote heliocentric astronomy by
developing time lapse footage of the motions of the other planets in
affirming that our planet has an orbital motion around the Sun and how
this motion is seen directly by explaining how it overtakes the slower
moving outer planets -

Yes, they can and it does. However it is of limited value, though a pleasant
diversion.

But there is still a serious issue to be discussed - your ignorance of basic
astronomical processes and your hubris in thinking you can proscribe
approaches to the subject that are different to yours . . .

It should strike people that there is no way to justify the
Earth's axial and orbital motions using a system which requires a leap
correction every fourth year but then again,if the exquisiteEquation
of Time system which links the 24 hour day to axial rotation at
precisely 24 hours/360 degrees was appreciated I would not have to
point out exactly why having celestial sphere geometry governing solar
system dynamics is the most destructive concept ever to enter the
investigation of natural phenomena.


You have never explained yourself as to why it is destructive - you just
repeat the claim ad-nauseam. Not surprising really - you've admitted your
ignorance of basic principles and you refuse to engage with the arguments
presented. You are incapable of understanding your own point of view -
which
is why your presentation never varies.

Do you really believe that the leap year depends on anything other that
the
ratio between year and day is not an simple integer?

You are avoiding discussion once again - what is it, incompetence or fear ?


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