• The March Equinox 2024

    From kelleher.gerald@kelleher.gerald@gmail.com (oriel36) to sci.astro.amateur on Thu Mar 14 09:39:17 2024
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    https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/spwebcam.cfm

    The Equinox occurs next week, so the area where the Sun remains constantly in view at the South Pole has presently contracted to a small circumference around the Pole. On the Equinox, as the South Pole turns into the dark hemisphere for the next six months, a small circumference is created where the Sun remains out of sight; this circumference will expand over the coming months until it reaches its maximum circumference (Antarctic Circle) on the June Solstice.

    The opposite is now happening at the North Pole, as that location turns into the light hemisphere of the Earth for the next six months, creating an expanding circumference where the Sun remains constantly in view.
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  • From Jake M@mill45@fla.net to sci.astro.amateur on Thu Mar 14 10:53:02 2024
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    You're off course. Your posting was supposed to end on 2024-02-20. Why
    do you continue posting your irrelevant, incorrect material?
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  • From kelleher.gerald@kelleher.gerald@gmail.com (oriel36) to sci.astro.amateur on Sat Mar 16 12:23:12 2024
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    https://gml.noaa.gov/obop/spo/livecamera.html

    The single sunset at the South Pole is fast approaching as that latitude passes from the light into the dark hemisphere for the next six months.

    It was not possible to propose this rotation within the Ptolemaic framework, as Copernicus tried, and Galileo considered it a type of rest rather than a rotation.

    "From what I see, did not understand very well- was a certain experiment which I exhibited to some gentlemen there at Rome in partial explanation and partial refutation of the "third motion" attributed by Copernicus to the Earth. This extra rotation, opposite in direction to all other celestial motions, appeared to many to be the most improbable thing and one that upset the whole Copernican system. What I said was designed to remove a difficulty attributed to the Copernican system, and I later added that anyone who would reflect upon the matter more carefully would see that Copernicus had spoken falsely when he attributed his "third motion" to the Earth since this would not be a motion at all, but a kind of rest. " Galileo, The Assayer

    It is time to revisit the cause of the seasons and extend it to planetary climate.
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  • From Jake M@mill45@fla.net to sci.astro.amateur on Sat Mar 16 14:26:38 2024
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    Think of the human brain as an "Oriel" cookie. The black, outer
    sections are representative of the skull, while the inner white icing as
    the brain. However, in your case, the filling is either missing or
    tainted so it has an unpleasant taste.

    Your postings here are off course, irrelevant, and incorrect. Please
    stop posting such faulty content.
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