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To: tacticalogic
“Aberration is the result of moving perpendicular to the light source. That should mean that at sunrise and sunset aberration is effectively zero.” [excerpt]
Tip,

the Earth, in its yearlong orbit around the Sun, is constantly moving perpendicular to the incoming light from the Sun at ~30,000 meters/second, causing around 0.00573° of displacement due to Annular aberration.
This is nearly constant.

The transverse speed contributed by the rotation of the Earth has a maximum of ~463.8 meters/second at high noon on the equator.

So at sunrise, you get ~30,000m/s transverse velocity, and at high noon you get ~30,463m/s transverse velocity.

Or, ~0.00573° at sunrise and ~0.00582° at noon.

1,184 posted on 02/04/2009 12:19:31 PM PST by Fichori (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate <= Donate and show Obama how much you love him)
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To: Fichori

Okay, I’m convinced. Now what?


1,193 posted on 02/04/2009 4:30:08 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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