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Flat Earth Community / Planetary Ecliptic
« on: April 21, 2017, 04:23:22 AM »
So, my 10 year old and I have be watching Jupiter for several months. On the weekends we have getting up in the middle of the night to check it out. We live at 44° north latitude. We have noticed:
1) The solar ecliptic has been getting higher in the sky over the last few months.
2) The planetary ecliptic has been getting lower for the last few months.
This makes sense with heliocentric model with the axis of the earth tilted at 23.5°. The northern hemisphere is tipped towards the sun during the day causing the ecliptic if the sun to rise. At night it's tipped away form the planetary ecliptic causing the planetary ecliptic to be closer to the southern horizon.
What is the flat earth explanation for this observation? According to the wiki the planets orbit the sun. If the sun is revolving around a more northern latitude approaching summer then why don't the planets also appearing to be higher in the sky. Instead the opposite is observed.
1) The solar ecliptic has been getting higher in the sky over the last few months.
2) The planetary ecliptic has been getting lower for the last few months.
This makes sense with heliocentric model with the axis of the earth tilted at 23.5°. The northern hemisphere is tipped towards the sun during the day causing the ecliptic if the sun to rise. At night it's tipped away form the planetary ecliptic causing the planetary ecliptic to be closer to the southern horizon.
What is the flat earth explanation for this observation? According to the wiki the planets orbit the sun. If the sun is revolving around a more northern latitude approaching summer then why don't the planets also appearing to be higher in the sky. Instead the opposite is observed.