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Flat Earth Discussion Boards => Flat Earth Theory => Topic started by: Bobby Shafto on May 02, 2018, 08:37:42 PM

Title: Observation of Sun Path During Sunset
Post by: Bobby Shafto on May 02, 2018, 08:37:42 PM

Here is an accelerated video of a sunset in San Diego, CA from a few weeks ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK_8AhH8i9g

Here's a composite image from that video of the sun's position at the start of the video and it's position at toward the end:
(http://oi68.tinypic.com/2yx108p.jpg)

No matter the time of year, I observe the sun's azimuth drift northward as it sinks toward the western horizon. (Moving from upper left to lower right.)

Many of the videos of sunsets I find show the sun following similar paths, exhibiting northerly drift as they set westerly:
(http://oi63.tinypic.com/zmku3a.jpg)

And here's a multiple exposure showing the same phenomenon: upper left to lower right  [edit to correct for my dyslexia]
(http://oi64.tinypic.com/2mredyf.jpg)

I understand why this is in a globe earth, heliocentric model. Does it make sense in a flat earth model?

For San Diego it does. And Sweden.
(http://oi68.tinypic.com/f1ffiv.jpg)

I marked Sweden too after seeing these sunsets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2pu_xhBnzY


In fact, would it be true for any vantage point on flat earth that the clockwise spiral of the sun would present a left to right drift of some amount during sunset?

But that doesn't happen in reaches outside of (south of) the sun's circular path.

Here's a sunset (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2unt2zLTAY) as seen from the southern "hemisphere"
 
(http://oi63.tinypic.com/25f4xu0.jpg)

It's setting upper right to lower left. That doesn't match with what the flat earth model would predict:

(http://oi67.tinypic.com/35ho2dt.jpg)

What might be a plausible explanation for this?