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Moving dates of the Capsolar
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 7:30 am
by SteveS
Jim, do the dates of the Capsolar move through all the days in our 365 days calendar in a complete Precession Cycle?
Re: Moving dates of the Capsolar
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 7:35 am
by Jim Eshelman
Yes.
Re: Moving dates of the Capsolar
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 8:10 am
by SteveS
Can you easily approximate the date of the Capsolar in 10,500 BC?
Re: Moving dates of the Capsolar
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 8:21 am
by Jim Eshelman
SteveS wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2019 8:10 am
Can you easily approximate the date of the Capsolar in 10,500 BC?
That was 12,446 years before 1947. A crude calculation of the amount of precession is 173° degrees later, so the SVP was about 29° Leo. Therefore, in 10,500 BC Sun's Tropical longitude for the Capsolar would have been:
Sidereal longitude 270° - 149° SVP = TZ 81° = TZ 21° Gemini.
In the New Style (Gregorian) calendar, this is always about 9 days before the summer solstice, or within a day of June 12. I'd have to find a New Style to Old Style conversion for that far back to get the Julian (OS) date.
Re: Moving dates of the Capsolar
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 10:45 am
by SteveS
Thanks Jim. Forgetting the 10,500 BC date and going with a more modern date, approximately when last did the Capsolar date fall on a Winter Solstice date?
Re: Moving dates of the Capsolar
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 10:53 am
by Jim Eshelman
221 AD