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Other posts have noted a strange looking moon. I had a thought today, if the poles stay in place but the earth shifts around them, wouldn't the sky map change? I used my handy dandy smart phone app with Google Earth to pinpoint the stars and looked in a book for seasonal reference. As I understand it, we in LA (1-27-2011) should not be seeing Sirius. I followed up by web sites and they all show that it should be below the equator - but it is quite visible. Anyone familiar with star charts at this time of year? I'd love to see a correction to this.
Use your car GPS to get your current GPS coordinates.
PS The visible moon today was on a diagonal, is this normal?
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by JohnnieWalker
Other posts have noted a strange looking moon. I had a thought today, if the poles stay in place but the earth shifts around them, wouldn't the sky map change? I used my handy dandy smart phone app with Google Earth to pinpoint the stars and looked in a book for seasonal reference. As I understand it, we in LA (1-27-2011) should not be seeing Sirius. I followed up by web sites and they all show that it should be below the equator - but it is quite visible. Anyone familiar with star charts at this time of year? I'd love to see a correction to this.
Use your car GPS to get your current GPS coordinates.
PS The visible moon today was on a diagonal, is this normal?
It sounds to me that you are a bit confused over the difference between a pole shift and a magnetic reversal. The Earth does not "shift" around the poles. That is what happens in a pole shift.
You should easily see Sirius at this time of year. In fact, this is the time of year when you see Sirius along with Orion. Websites do not show Sirius below the equator. LA is 34 degrees north. Download Stellarium and check out what your view is this evening at midnight. The only reason you might not see Sirius is due to the local obstructions of the horizon.
If you don't have a GPS in your car it is easy to determine your position. I don't have a GPS in my car because they suck. I laugh at anyone that I warn not to use GPS to arrive at my house. If you use car GPS you get lost. I find it rather funny because if people had a sense of direction they would quickly realize that the GPS was taking them away from my house.
Originally posted by stereologist
This is tonight's view of Sirius from LA. Enjoy.
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i noticed the sun is not rising as expected...sometime it rises further right..than further left again..
also the moon is visible..very visible throughout the whole day..everyday..
just a simple question so give me a simple answer...
do you anybody who witnessed a magnetic reversal ?
simple answer dont forget
you have to re-post..there is no date anywhere...time waster lol
you have question I made yet to be answered..
and i told ya already..the moon is visible..and i posted a picture..dude..you cant argue what is happening today with articles years old
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by heineken
you have to re-post..there is no date anywhere...time waster lol
Why don't you show that I am wrong! You can't, can you!
The fact is that you posted a stunning whopper of a mistake in which you claimed that you could see the moon all day long. Duh! The moon is third quarter. Of course it can be seen for most of the daylight hours, but it is not visible for the entire day. The moon sets before sunset.
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by heineken
you have question I made yet to be answered..
and i told ya already..the moon is visible..and i posted a picture..dude..you cant argue what is happening today with articles years old
I answered your question.
Your moon photo is not dated, has no time, no orientation information, and has no location provided. That is a huge time waster. It's not even a current picture since it does not depict the phase of the moon today.
when posting something showing a position of something which is influenced y the date ..YOU HAVE TO POST IT WITH THE DATE VISIBLE....else its invalid..so no go and re-post your picture
its 2pm...Malta...date last week
i took the picture personally
Historically, the second was defined in terms of the rotation of the Earth as 1/86,400 of a mean solar day. In 1956, the International Committee for Weights and Measures, under the authority given it by the Tenth General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1954, defined the second in terms of the period of revolution of the Earth around the Sun for a particular epoch, because by then it had become recognized that the Earth's rotation was not sufficiently uniform as a standard of time.
That is, the length of the mean solar day is at present about 86,400.002 seconds instead of exactly 86,400 seconds. Over the course of one year, the difference accumulates to almost one second, which is compensated by the insertion of a leap second into the scale of UTC with a current regularity of a little less than once per year.