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Observation of Sun Path During Sunset
« 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:


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:


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:


And here's a multiple exposure showing the same phenomenon: upper left to lower right  [edit to correct for my dyslexia]


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.


I marked Sweden too after seeing these sunsets:



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 as seen from the southern "hemisphere"
 


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



What might be a plausible explanation for this?

« Last Edit: May 02, 2018, 08:40:52 PM by Bobby Shafto »