What's the trig involved with that image?

Plum

Its pretty basic

Set up a triangle from you, to the moon, and then the sun

You already know the distance from you to the moon, find the angle from the moon to the sun starting at you

Then use trig ratios to solve the triangle

Mhm interesting

https://youtu.be/PV5_qS0SwiE

@AaliDragon7 interesting it is indeed

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If the sun and moon’s real distances were actually known, perhaps you could use trig to figure out that sun picture. However, their distances are in fact not known. And anyone who says it haphazardly as if it’s fact, is lying to you.

What does seeing Polaris through a hole in a rock have to do with flat earth?

well, to start, they're not perfectly parallel. Sigma Octantis rotates quite a bit in the sky and even Polaris has some small rotation.

In fact, Polaris hasn't always been our pole star.

Thuban used to be back when the pyramids were built.

The fact we can see Polaris through a small hole on a rock every night, forever, while earth is spinning 1,000 mph, orbiting the sun at 45,000 mph, and moving with the solar system at 515,000 mph, while wobbling back and forth on an axis, is simply insane to try and make sense with on a heliocentric model.

I’m really not even wanting to sound rude.

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didn't come across as rude. I believe Polaris is actually in our galaxy, so it's traveling with our solar system as it rotates around the galactic center of the Milky Way.

I’ll even give you that.

Truth Derek

Still. With it matching earth’s axis. It’s just too much.

what do you mean, matching earth's axis?

He means it has to be moving at precisely the same speed, on the same elliptical plane as earth and NEVER slow down or move "up or down".

Too many coincidence need to happen for this to be remotely true

well, as I mentioned earlier, it wasn't always our pole star - it isn't traveling at the same speed as us around the galaxy.

and at some point it will no longer be our pole star.

Thank you, Brian.

Polaris might be visible through that hole in a rock now, but it won't always be.

Searching for pictures can be too much sometimes. Heh.

The same reason its not possible for astro navigation charts to be 100% still accurate thousands of years later allowing mariners to sail by the same stars their ancestors did and arrive at the right location. If the earth is orbiting the sun at 45,000 mph, and moving with the solar system at 515,000 mph, there is no way thousands of years later we could still navigate by the position of the stars they would HAVE to have moved!