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Gnomon - time to move on

A good entry, thanks to MotDoc, who was the main author. But it's hard to see the relevance of a picture of Io in front of Jupiter.smiley - smiley


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MotDoc, Temporarily Exiled to Tartu, Estonia

Its astronomy, Gnomon. It all fits together like the springy things in watches.
smiley - martiansmile


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Is mise Duncan

I think they misread Wandering _N_oon as Wandering _M_oon...these arty types smiley - rofl


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flyingtwinkle

yes probably!but it is a very nice article almost mathametically clear showing the close approximity and various distances and angles in relation to the sun changing the period of noon time stretching or shrinking or shifting it


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