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Subject It's not the sun, it's the Earth that's out of place

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Original Message Hey there cyber-friends!

I wanted to post my observations in a new thread since the old "Sun is in the wrong place" thread ended up being reduced to a argument between two posters.

Last night I took careful compass readings on the setting sun. This morning I did the same. In both cases I adjusted for the local difference between magnetic north and true north.

I then compared the values to values derived from an astronomy software package I use called Starry Night. It is programmed for my local position on Earth.

What I found was very interesting and I want you guys to know about it without having to mine it out of pages and pages of a thread lost to a battle of wits.

The sun both set and rose between 3 and 4 degrees to the north of where it should have. Let's call it 3 degrees to be conservative.

For the purposes of this thread, let's PLEASE not get into a mode of debunking the observations. Let's use this as a mental exercise.

Let's assume that these readings are accurate.

What does this imply?

What possible cause(s) could be at play?

I have an opinion and will post it next...

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