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but i noticed it a full three weeks early this year.
Originally posted by Trillium
Originally posted by wildespace
Many amateurs have Go-To telescopes. They align them to several known stars (like the North Star), and the automated mechanism can swing the telescope to any of the hundreds of famous targets, like the Orion. If anything had shifted, these telescopes would show the wrong part of the sky.
There wasn't any pole shift either, because the North Star is exactly where it's always been.
That the problem with those Go-To telescopes if you align them to a known stars (like the North Star), and the automated mechanism can swing the telescope to any of the hundreds of famous targets, like the Orion they position will be raletive to the north star.( so no change to see here)
What if the north star has change a few degree sence those Earth Quake.
Originally posted by Trillium
What if the north star has change a few degree sence those Earth Quake.
Originally posted by eriktheawful
Originally posted by Trillium
Originally posted by wildespace
Many amateurs have Go-To telescopes. They align them to several known stars (like the North Star), and the automated mechanism can swing the telescope to any of the hundreds of famous targets, like the Orion. If anything had shifted, these telescopes would show the wrong part of the sky.
There wasn't any pole shift either, because the North Star is exactly where it's always been.
That the problem with those Go-To telescopes if you align them to a known stars (like the North Star), and the automated mechanism can swing the telescope to any of the hundreds of famous targets, like the Orion they position will be raletive to the north star.( so no change to see here)
What if the north star has change a few degree sence those Earth Quake.
I refer you then to my post back on page 6 here:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
BTW - to another post: if you could snap your fingers and magically teleport to Alpha Centauri over 4 light years away, if you were on a planet there and looked up at the night sky, you'd almost swear you were looking up at Earth's night sky, with the exception of a hand full of stars that happen to be very close to the Earth.
We have to travel quite far to make the constellations look very out of place, and strange looking too.
The solar system is moving at about 220 km/s and it takes us about 1,500 years to go 1 light year.
RE: earth's plate moving inches due to earthquakes, equaling 10th's of a degree in the alignment to Polaris.
This is true, but it won't cause some drastic perspective change of the constellation in the sky. The Orion constellation covers over 590 sq. degrees in the sky. That's a HUGE swath of sky that it covers. We could have a mega quake that shifts the physical spin axis of the earth by a whole foot and you won't see the difference in the sky with your eyes.
Again, the Earth has shifted so drastically on it's axis, you would not be getting you GPS to work, nor would satellite TV be working correctly.
I noticed how that was ignored.
According to our calculations, the quake moved Earth's figure axis by about 3 inches (8 cm)," says geophysicist Richard Gross of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Well they say it change
Earth's figure axis should not be confused with its north-south axis; they are offset by about 10 meters (about 33 feet). This shift in Earth's figure axis will cause Earth to wobble a bit differently as it rotates, but it will not cause a shift of Earth's axis in space—only external forces such as the gravitational attraction of the sun, moon and planets can do that.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by Trillium
Well they say it change
No they don't. From your source:
Earth's figure axis should not be confused with its north-south axis; they are offset by about 10 meters (about 33 feet). This shift in Earth's figure axis will cause Earth to wobble a bit differently as it rotates, but it will not cause a shift of Earth's axis in space—only external forces such as the gravitational attraction of the sun, moon and planets can do that.
www.nasa.gov...
There was theorectically a very slight movement of the Earth's figure axis. There was no change in the Earth's rotational axis. The Earth's tilt did not change.
You get an unnoticeable and barely measurable change in the rate of precession. You do not get a change in the Earth's tilt or a noticeable change the apparent location of the stars. The tilt of Earth's axis did not change. The stars are where they should be.
Now just add all those little wobble up.what do you get
Originally posted by eriktheawful
Right Ascension and Declination coordinates.
Those have not changed, in a very, very, very long time.
Originally posted by alfa1
Originally posted by eriktheawful
Right Ascension and Declination coordinates.
Those have not changed, in a very, very, very long time.
Hate to be pedantic, but these do change very slightly.
The first star atlas I had was a 1950 epoch version (Nortons), then some years ago I got a 2000 epoch version (Tirions) and I suppose some years from now I'll buy another (2050 epoch) star atlas.
But yes, the changes are so small that its only pedantic astronomers like me who know, and this has nothing to do with some mentally ill guy saying Orion is off target.
Originally posted by babybunnies
Lots of people are making similar claims - that stars are in the wrong place, that the sun / moon don't rise in the same places that they normally do on the same day of the year.
Maybe there's something to this - starting to become too many reports to ignore.
Originally posted by babybunnies
Lots of people are making similar claims - that stars are in the wrong place, that the sun / moon don't rise in the same places that they normally do on the same day of the year.
Maybe there's something to this - starting to become too many reports to ignore.