All the constellations move counter-clockwise around which star of the northern hemisphere?
Gee, no one here knows the name of the star around which all the constellations move counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere?
I thought we had more informed members on CathInfo.
Okay, maybe that one's too hard, so here's an alternative question:
What do we call the time when the sun crosses the celestial equator?
By all appearances, flat-earthers do not know the answers to these questions.
So they probably don't know the answer to this question, either:
Has it ever been possible to observe from earth the transit of the planet Mercury across the visible disc of the sun in the sky?
The North Star, Polaris is the fixed star around which the heavens go and a glaring proof the universe is not Heliocentric, that earth is fixed and the sun moves. That path of the sun crossing the celestial equator is known as the ecliptic. The transit of Mercury, the heavenly body that is a wandering star and not a planet... appears to cross the sun 13 times a century.
One out of three isn't bad. Polaris isn't really "fixed," because it wobbles in a tiny circle.
There are two other names for Polaris (North Star). Do you know what they are?
The second question is not "that path of the sun," but the time when the sun crosses the celestial equator. That TIME is called the Equinox. There is a Vernal and an Autumnal Equinox each year.
As for the "wandering star" we call Mercury, if it is a star then why does it appear as a tiny black dot on the face of the sun as it transits in between the sun and the earth?
BTW, Venus also transits the same way, but it's a bigger black dot, but black just the same. Are those black stars, in your opinion?
If so, why does Venus show phases like the moon does -- is the moon another black star or what?
So the moon, when it transits across the face of the sun we call that an eclipse of the sun.
Why don't we call it an eclipse of the sun when Venus or Mercury do that?
Polaris is fixed to the point that it can be viewed literally for years on end, through a simple 1/2" pvc pipe, and never does it even approach the pipe's inner edge. That's certainly not much movement considering NASA claims it is bazillions of miles away where even the tiniest of movements would instantly show. Comparatively, the sun moves completely out of the same pvc viewer in 1 1/2 minutes.
You have a real 1/2" PVC viewer? WOW.
That must have set you back a bundle.
What did you buy it with, Blue Chip stamps?
As far as Mercury is concerned, I just know its hard to see being so close to the sun. I have a growing collection of photos and videos of my own since I recently bought a Nikon P900. We climb from where we are at 2200 ft up to 2500 ft so we can shoot far out of the range of other hills and trees.
What makes you think Mercury is close to the sun?
If it's a star (like Venus is, you say below) it could be millions of miles away.
But if you look through the viewfinder of a camera at the sun you can burn your retina and go blind. So be sure to follow special procedures, projecting the image onto a white piece of hardboard where you can see the sun, with Mercury (as a black dot) passing in front of it.
Venus is a star for sure, I've seen it (not black yet) and have my own clear shots of it... as well as Mars.
Venus appears to be a black dot when it passes in front of the sun, which happens very rarely.
Saturn is my next goal; its rings are the same stuff as the star itself, not a terra firma planet as we are told, and it all flickers like an electric pulse, even the rings.
The flickering you see there is due to the movement of the earth's atmosphere, not Saturn or its rings. When viewed from places where a view through static air is possible, you don't get so much flickering. Images from certain remote telescopes show no distortion at all.
So far Sirius is my favorite, so wild and colorful. I can only hazard a guess as to the Mercury black dot thing: that the camera lens and bright objects such as the sun can black out the lesser light which is just enough different from the sun so that it creates that effect. I have not seen that myself, but from what I have seen, taking shots of heavenly things, there is no end to the kind of anomalies you get just for trying.
As far as phases of Venus, the only thing I can verify is that it is the Morning Star in the east and it jets around to close out the day in the West where it can be easily photographed. The morning has its own challenges so its hard to get at that time.
A star cannot eclipse the sun in any observably interesting way as they are too small. The moon on the other hand is the same size as the sun and creates quite the show during an eclipse.
The moon is many, many times smaller than the sun, which can be easily shown using simple surveying equipment from earth's surface. It only appears to be the same size during some solar eclipses, but in others it appears to be smaller when the moon is further from the earth at the time and its darkest shadow does not completely reach earth's surface. This is not difficult to understand.
A star cannot eclipse the sun because the stars are all too far away, which is why they appear smaller than the sun. Some are smaller, true, but most of them are larger than our sun. If one of the larger stars were to pass between earth and the sun the latter would be eclipsed, but by a more intense light, which could wipe out all life on the daylight side of the planet, but would certainly disturb the gravitational forces presently at balance here.
The picture provided is an unknown star I took the first day I got my camera.
Another interesting fact I've discovered since taking many shots of the moon is that it rotates 180 degrees, like a wheel, from moon rise, to moon set, every day and 360 degrees every 24 hours. You can observe this yourself once the moon looks like a smile (or when full using the features to determine). Watch the extreme points of the lit smile rotate counterclockwise almost 180 degrees to the opposite side by morning. Amazing!
If you have photos of the back side of the moon you ought to publish them.
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