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Gee if I had known there was so much to see I would have started decades ago ! :Astronomer1:

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Have to keep an eye out for this :)
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A graphic showed up on my computer of earth orbiting the sun and tilting on its axis so that it is leaning away from the sunlight, meaning winter in the northern hemisphere....
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helicon wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 5:03 pm A graphic showed up on my computer of earth orbiting the sun and tilting on its axis so that it is leaning away from the sunlight, meaning winter in the northern hemisphere....
I’d love to see something like that, I’ll have to do a search for it thanks.
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Frankskywatcher wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 7:59 pm
helicon wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 5:03 pm A graphic showed up on my computer of earth orbiting the sun and tilting on its axis so that it is leaning away from the sunlight, meaning winter in the northern hemisphere....
I’d love to see something like that, I’ll have to do a search for it thanks.
It's sort of a Microsoft Windows thing, automatically shows up in the lower toolbar on the screen along with news alerts of the day...
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helicon wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 8:00 pm
Frankskywatcher wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 7:59 pm
helicon wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 5:03 pm A graphic showed up on my computer of earth orbiting the sun and tilting on its axis so that it is leaning away from the sunlight, meaning winter in the northern hemisphere....
I’d love to see something like that, I’ll have to do a search for it thanks.
It's sort of a Microsoft Windows thing, automatically shows up in the lower toolbar on the screen along with news alerts of the day...
I found this chart from Wikipedia. I’d like to see if I could find a video or something of its orbit around the sun. I have to do another search.
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