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Old 01-May-2004, 09:15 PM
 
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Default Re: A couple more ways to show that the Earth has not been m

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Originally Posted by Fomalhaut
I've been following the Nancy/Zeta saga for a while and am continually amazed and dismayed at the lack of basic astronomical understanding of so many people. I appreciate the effort done by many debunkers to explain the true cause of the Planet X sightings. I thought of a few more ways to demonstrate that the Earth has been unaffected.
1) Star trails near the astronomical north pole - One of the first pictures any budding astro-photographer takes is long exposure shot near Polaris to show star trails. If the Earth has tipped, such a shot would very easily show how much tipping has taken place. Anyone have a link to a recent photograph of that nature?
2) Sundials would not properly work. If the sun were really rising "too far North" (a current hot Planet X proof on GLP), then the sundial would not show the correct time. It is more complicated that just comparing your watch to the time indicated on the sundial. You need to know that the gnomon is angled properly to begin with, and if the hour lines have been adjusted to take into account your location within your time zone.
I have frequently referred Lieder and her followers to the Night Sky Live camera network. Go to http://us.geocities.com/openmindxx/ and click "No Evidence for Pole Shift Seen in Movies of the Night Sky" for an example attempt.

Every clear night these cameras produce a timelapse movie (design interval 3m56s ... any guesses why?) of the rotation of the sky ... no signs of any tilt. Lieder is imune to this sort of direct evidence although for a while she came up with a "jump up" argument that kept the pole still aligned with Polaris.

John Oliver
Associate Professor
Associate Chair/Undergraduate Coordinator
Department of Astronomy
University of Florida
Project AST@RHO http://astrho.astro.ufl.edu
see the night sky at http://concam.net/rh/
and at http://nightskylive.net/ (look in the archives to find movies of nights).