Celestial Equator is changing?
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Celestial Equator is changing?
I have noticed on my celestial Software, Cartes du Ciel, that the Celestial Equator has been moving downward through the centuries. For example, I entered the year 1AD and noticed the Celestial equator was across the center of Pisces. Now it is very near the bottom of Pisces. I projected the date to 2500AD and the Celestial equator will be on the cuff of Pisces and Aquarius. Is the plane of the earth and all of the planets going lower? Thank you.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession
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I just now read the link you sent me. Do you believe that the melting of the Northern Glaciers might be because a downward movement during this precession of the axis, directing the northern part of the globe to face the sun in a more direct manner, would cause this melting? Thank you.
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Geologic, atmospheric and a host of other things all contributed.
I would suggest a search for things that contributed to the end of it, you will likely be reading for a while.
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At our public observatory, I often get asked about the constellations under which people are born. Often they don't even have the faintest clue how that works.
I then explain that although astrology and astronomy have the same roots several thousand years ago, they have nothing to do with each other now.
As a matter of fact, we do astronomy here.
When I show questioners in Stellarium that the constellation under which they were born according to ancient astrology is totally inconsistent with reality now, you see the question marks rise. The ancient astrologers had never heard of precession.
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