Sunrise or Sunset

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Re: Sunrise or Sunset

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Seems the smoke out west is impacting sunset colors here (assuming that's the cause)...I took this last night with my phone, amazing surreal red/pink colors, the sun looked like a gumdrop suspended in the air, like one of those Scifi movies that show a landscape with multiple suns setting.
It was much sharper than my phone photo above shows, but that's the camera I had with me and the broader sky was more purple than the phone captured which made it look even more Wizard of Oz-like.
Has anyone else seen these colors in a sunset recently?
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Sunset from Cross Mountain Trail after climbing Gladstone.
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La Sal Mountains from 9er Snipe Mountain on Sunday evening.
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Solar flare near the winter solstice sunrise over Mesa Verde.
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From Mount Index, WA
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Not mountainy, but on my way down from a hill. Komiza
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Last week took a hike up to a lookout point to catch the sunrise. Sunrise over Colorado Springs on the hike up. And then Pikes Peak.
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Dunno if it's been mentioned, but it's interesting that we still refer to sunrise and sunset as if we live in a geocentric society. We have long understood that this is not the case and yet we continue to pretend that the sun is "rising" in the east and "setting" in the west.
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Barnold41 wrote: Tue Oct 19, 2021 10:02 am Dunno if it's been mentioned, but it's interesting that we still refer to sunrise and sunset as if we live in a geocentric society. We have long understood that this is not the case and yet we continue to pretend that the sun is "rising" in the east and "setting" in the west.
It’s called a “Frame of Reference” in physics. (See image below for an example) Of course we are a geocentric society since we are all on this geoid we call Earth which is moving/rotating through the vacuum of space. Since we can’t feel the Earth’s movement, from our frame of reference we are stationary and it is the Sun that is moving/rising/setting.
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  • Our solar system orbits the center of our galaxy at 490,000mph,
  • Our galaxy is moving towards the "Great Attractor" at 1000km/s.
  • The closest we can come to a "universal frame of reference" is the CBR (Cosmic Background Radiation), which permeates all space, and we are moving 390km/s with respect to it.
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Barnold41 wrote: Tue Oct 19, 2021 10:02 am Dunno if it's been mentioned, but it's interesting that we still refer to sunrise and sunset as if we live in a geocentric society. We have long understood that this is not the case and yet we continue to pretend that the sun is "rising" in the east and "setting" in the west.
I mean if you really want to get pedantic about it a heliocentric model has no intrinsic merit over a geocentric one as far as physics is concerned. You can construct a perfectly valid set of physical rules for a non-inertial reference frame if you want to, your kinematics equations will just have a few extra terms. It is mathematically impossible to prove that the Earth is not the center of the universe. You can read more about that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_relativity
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geojed wrote: Tue Oct 19, 2021 10:23 am :lol: Umm, it’s called a “Frame of Reference” in physics. (See image below for an example) Of course we are a geocentric society since we are all on this geoid we call Earth which is moving/rotating through the vacuum of space. Since we can’t feel the Earth’s movement, from our frame of reference we are stationary and it is the Sun that is moving/rising/setting.
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This Scientific American webpage (https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... earth-mov/) states that:
  • Earth Rotates at ~1000mph (at the equator),
  • Earth orbits the Sun at ~67,000mph,
  • Our solar system orbits the center of our galaxy at 490,000mph,
  • Our galaxy is moving towards the "Great Attractor" at 1000km/s.
  • The closest we can come to a "universal frame of reference" is the CBR (Cosmic Background Radiation), which permeates all space, and we are moving 390km/s with respect to it.
timewarp01 wrote: Tue Oct 19, 2021 11:57 am I mean if you really want to get pedantic about it a heliocentric model has no intrinsic merit over a geocentric one as far as physics is concerned. You can construct a perfectly valid set of physical rules for a non-inertial reference frame if you want to, your kinematics equations will just have a few extra terms. It is mathematically impossible to prove that the Earth is not the center of the universe. You can read more about that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_relativity

I don't have much experience in physics, so thanks for sharing this information.
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Both have their benefits! Keep the pics coming
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