The yellow axis, pointing to Polaris is the situation now | Percy Newberry 1943 : "Queen Nitocris of the Sixth Dynasty", in: The Journal of Egyptian Archeology, vol |
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When the polar axis precesses from one direction to another, then the equatorial plane of the Earth indicated with the circular grid around the equator and the associated celestial equator will move too | Neil Spencer, True as the Stars Above, Victor Gollancz London, 2000, p |
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3Where the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic red line there are the equinoxes | By now the yellow grid it has shifted red arrow to somewhere in the constellation of Pisces |
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The rotation axis of the Earth describes over a period of about 25,800 years a small circle blue among the stars, centred on the northpole blue E and with an angular radius of about 23 | Nicholas Campion, The Book of World Horoscopes, The Wessex Astrologer, Bournemouth, Great Britain, 1998, pp |
As seen from the drawing, the orange grid, 5000 years ago one intersection of equator and ecliptic, the was close to the star of.
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