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Mar 30, 2023 1:39 pm
Hi,
I have some basic understanding-questions on the video of local space:
1) i understand that the horizon is what i see on a horizontal level, so a very narrow field, compared to the planet earth. How can it be that it intersects with the equator (at the east point). that would mean that when I look east, I could have seen the equator?
2) In the graph, the north pole is above the horizon. I dont understand how that is possible. Above the horizon is the sky...
3) prime vertical: I understand that it passes through the zenith and nadir. I dont understand that it
"has the north point as its north pole" / "The prime vertical is that vertical which the north point is the pole of it"... Where is that shown in the graph?
thank you,
BR,
Jakob
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