How does light bend to give the illusion of a celestial pole? On your map, I’m assuming the center is the South Pole and this has the southern celestial pole but how does the northern celestial pole works?
In the more traditional north centered flat Earth map, in the other thread, Tom tried to explain it away using crepuscular and anti crepuscular rays. That explanation was shaky but even more glaring issue was the ability of people on different continents to look at their own south directions (remember, different places on a flat Earth) and still see the same stars. I remember stack or someone else found a time of year when conditions are dark enough to see stars from Australia, tip of South America, and tip of Africa.
How do you explain that? On the Globe earth, South Pole is a single point. People looking south from all of those three locations are converging at a singular point. Therefore, they can easily see the same set of stars.
This issue was not resolved by the way and Tom has now abandoned that thread presumably because it’s not really recoverable without also bending logic. In a yet another thread about a similar discussion I believe the flat Earth proponents had to change wiki because of this issue.
Regarding light bending, in the summer months in NY, i can see the Sun rise to my North West and Set North East.
If the sun is located below my latitude which it is, shouldn't it rise and set in front of me in SW and SE? I went nuts over this, until I realized that during sunrise im seeing a reflection of the sun on the northern edge of the dome (which is North West). As it rises the suns rays are less distorted during the day (my viewing angle is closer to 90deg) and therefore passes in front of me (facing south) as one would expect. During the winter it rises and sets in front of me which (correct me if im wrong, but the sun is farther south and more perpendicular to the dome so theres less of a bending of light around the dome effect. If you take a flashlight and point it at a huge glass dome, the sides will illuminate less as you point the flashlight down and center. If you bring the light to the edge of the dome it will reflect on all sides.
For star purposes, if you spin the earth which i believe happens, beneath a starry sky through the eyes of a dome, you will observe two seperate rotating circles that represent the two poles of axis. It's in the wiki. Further, if you admit being able to see a huge sun at sunset (despite being further away from your location), then you have to admit that the dome can share and magnify images of the sky to your location even if its not near you. That's my understanding of stars as seen by people around the northern hemisphere. They see a certain set of stars based on there viewing angle, and can see these stars during a big portion of the night and to there north because the Dome helps project these images to everyone as the starlight bends around it during the early hours of night and the later hours of night just like the sun in the morning!
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