Re: Winter Solstice Sunrise

Posted by Arlo Barnes on Dec 21, 2012; 4:12am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Winter-Solstice-Sunrise-tp7581126p7581137.html

While they HAVE noticed that the sunset/rise  moves N and south along the horizon in spring and fall, Few have  noticed that the moon makes that same trip in a month.

So where is our moonalemma? I guess I have a Googling/Photography project now.

outside the normal flyways for airlines and during the early era of satellites, meaning that anything moving in the night sky was *really cool*!)

Lucky, there are way too many planes where I live.

I'm appalled when I hear "white folks" ooh and aww about how much this native or that native tribe (contemporary or ancient) knew about the night sky, about the movements of the celestial bodies... *of course* you notice them if you are not in your glass/steel skyscraper watching a big screen TV!

And it helps that they (sun, moon,planets, stars),are among the flashier things of the world, only having to compete with torches and camp/bonfires (and I suppose forest fires, lightning, et cetera) instead of electric lights and LCD/other screens. Possibly flashy meant (and perhaps still does) holy, so such objects were worthy of closer scrutiny.
-Arlo James Barnes

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