At the same time the sun looks like it’s receding off into the distance

But with the sun rotating away, as in the model you posted, the sun should also bare off to the left or right while it fades out.

It’s almost as if the video doesn’t entirely match either view.

Yeah. It’d say that the camera is in the spot where the curve is yet to be seen. If, say, there was another camera more miles further, then you’d see it making the curve, because, from direct perception at that moment, and taking into account the size of the sun, it’d take more miles (for the camera) to see the “leaning”.

The model shows “quick” turns, but in reality it ain’t that fast

No, I understand that

Also, if you put your finger on the starting point, you’ll see some slight leaning to the left

Though not great

I’m just observing that no matter where you position the camera, the sun should have turned slightly at some point from being stationary.

Let me look at the video again, maybe I can see that turn if I look a bit closer.

It is turning, it’s just not gonna be as “radical” as we’d think

If you put a line through the middle of the sun, as it shrinks in that video, both sides stay the same size.

I see it going to the left

If you put a line on the edge, it does look like it’s turning since the edge of the sun is slowly tracking away from the line.

I traced a line on the starting point

I wish I could demonstrate it, but I don’t really know how.

With your drawing tool

Yeah, I think this one needs to be more precise than I can do with that, lol

We both saw how bad my drawings are, lmao

Lmao

This image sort of gets at what I mean, even if it’s meant for something completely different:

Welp lol

One of those dotted line last cuts both circles in half

The one that gets close to the “X”

Yeah I see it

The red line shows the difference in where the edge of the circle is if the circle gets smaller

How are you relating it with the video? I’m trying to understand

As in, the lines you want to explain

Where you’d put the sun’s movement in that graphic?

To see if I get you

I’m trying to figure out how to rotate the stupid thing to show what I mean

You’re saying the “edge” of th small circle is always going to touch the red line even if it shrinks?

This might help, I redid the lines and added one that’s pretty important.

So, in this image, imagine that the circle is the sun, as we see it from earth. It’s basically a big circle.

The green line represents the surface of the ground, or horizon. You’ll have to mentally tilt the image to make it match a normal ground level perspective

The blue line represents a line at a right angle, perfectly perpendicular to the ground.

If I make a straight line perpendicular to the ground that touches the very edge of the sun’s circle, then as the sun gets smaller, it will pull away from that line.

Now, if we put a perpendicular line in the center of the circle, then as the sun’s circle gets smaller, both halves of the circle will be the same size as each other.

That line is the dotted line that gets close to the “X”,