On Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 2:28:22 AM UTC+1, palsing wrote:
On Saturday, May 14, 2022 at 6:54:45 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
I credit you with being the first, aside from myself, to openly affirm the stars would move from left/evening appearance to right/morning appearance as a result of the Earth's orbital motion...
Gerald, don't know why you don't understand that the motions that you are describing have been well understood for centuries! Neither one of you fellows are the 'first' to affirm this patently obvious fact. This has been "old news" for a very, very
long time... but if it is a recent 'discovery' for you, well, congratulations!
I will give you credit for not interpreting the difference between Venus as an evening appearance or to the left of the Sun seen from our slower moving planet and when it is to the right of the Sun as a morning appearance as it is presently. Mercury is
coming within range of the C3 camera soon so you have a chance to redeem yourself by describing what the slower moving planets are brightest at the centre of retrogrades while the faster moving Venus and Mercury are darkest among many other topics.
The community of solar system researchers is a really old one so it is always an honour to add to an understanding of our motion and position in the solar system. The first Sun-centred researchers didn't have satellites to discern the difference between
planets moving faster than the Earth and slower than the Earth and had to rely on the stationary field of background stars hence the perception of direct/retrograde motions fell short when it comes to Venus and Mercury-
" Now what is said here of Jupiter is to be understood of Saturn and Mars also. In Saturn these retrogressions are somewhat more frequent than in Jupiter, because its motion is slower than Jupiter's, so that the Earth overtakes it in a shorter time. In
Mars they are rarer, its motion being faster than that of Jupiter, so that the Earth spends more time in catching up with it. Next, as to Venus and Mercury, whose circles are included within that of the Earth, stoppings and retrograde motions appear in
them also, due not to any motion that really exists in them, but to the annual motion of the Earth. This is acutely demonstrated by Copernicus ..." Galileo
You don't insult me Paul, you insult the heritage of astronomy and the community which stretches back to remote antiquity.
I am a Christian, perhaps not the denominational kind as it presently exists, so it is not possible for me to take to myself something that does not belong to me as I treat the information as sharing rather than trying to convince people, at least up to
a point. It is why Galileo wrote; “You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”
Insulting your own spirit or the ability to be inspired and inspiring is like cursing your own life and therefore a living death.
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