pterodactyl,
Are you responsible for those Spanish chaps in long robes and pointy hats who came round the manger and forced me to recant? Very painful having your hooves drawn you know, so weakling that I am, I confessed to using a fallacy to take the p*ss out of mathematicians. Now safely ensconced back in a Muslim country, far from papal oppression, I thumb my nose at both mathematics and the inquisition and insist that the solution lies in terrestrial tilt and the lands of the midnight sun. Consider if one will, the strange arctic/antarctic phenomena of sunset and sunrise coinciding at midnight and taking place at true north/south and work back from there to the tropical regions where the mid-day sun may be directly overhead and sunrise and sunset occur due east and due west. So far no-one has answered the gentleman's original question - Why was sunset taking place to the south of due west in the southern hemisphere during the southern summer...?
As one moves hubwards, doesn't the sun simply appear to move towards the relevant pole in summer, until eventually one moves so far hubwards that it is in view all the time? Being one who lives in a tree on the island of Borneo, on the rim as it were, it is so difficult to think in hubwards terms...
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