skeptic, your efforts are very nice, but even with a zoom your enchanting similarities between the two photographs just ain't there.
North Circumpolar Constellations:
http://www.coldwater.k12.mi.us/lms/planetarium/myth/ncircum.htmlhttp://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/images/starmaps/map_1_large_jpg_image.htmlSouth Circumpolar Constellations:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/Constellations/south_constellations.htmlhttp://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/images/starmaps/map_6_large_jpg_image.htmlhttp://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/Constellations/spring/crux.htmlRegular orbits (Southern Sky):
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/images/starmaps/map_2_large_jpg_image.htmlRegular orbits (Northern Sky):
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/images/starmaps/map_5_large_jpg_image.htmlIn antiquity, there was a clear difference between the stars which rotate endlessly above the North Pole/South Pole, and THE REST of the stars, which do rise in the east, and set in the west.
Let us read from the book of Enoch:
Cap. 18
I likewise beheld terrestrial fountains, deep in the fiery columns of heaven.
13And in the columns of heaven I beheld fires, which descended without number, but neither on high, nor into the deep. Over these fountains also I perceived a place which had neither the firmament of heaven above it, nor the solid ground underneath it; neither was there water above it; nor anything on wing; but the spot was desolate.
14And there I beheld seven stars, like great blazing mountains, and like spirits entreating me.
15Then the angel said, This place, until the consummation of heaven and earth, will be the prison of the stars, and the host of heaven.
16The stars which roll over fire are those which transgressed the commandment of God before their time arrived; for they came not in their proper season. Therefore was He offended with them, and bound them, until the period of the consummation of their crimes in the secret year.
Cap. 21
Then I made a circuit to a place in which nothing was completed.
2And there I beheld neither the tremendous workmanship of an exalted heaven, nor of an established earth, but a desolate spot, prepared, and terrific.
3There, too, I beheld seven stars of heaven bound in it together, like great mountains, and like a blazing fire. I exclaimed, For what species of crime have they been bound, and why have they been removed to this place? Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, and who conducted me, answered: Enoch, wherefore do you ask; wherefore do you reason with yourself, and anxiously inquire? These are those of the stars which have transgressed the commandment of the most high God; and are here bound, until the infinite number of the days of their crimes be completed.
A clear description of the Big Dipper...
And this fact is shown in these ancient documents if we read carefully:
Just as it with the movements of small ants, on a potters wheel turning around, is sure that due to their changing locations there is a different experience, so too is that relative to Meru and Dhruvaloka [the central heap of stars and the galaxy center]: with the stars, that go around with the great wheel of time, they are located at the right, but of the individual motions by the planets lead by the sun upon that spinning wheel of time, is the movement to the stars and signs for sure observed differently.
Have you ever heard of simultaneous lunar/solar eclipses?
Plinius Secundus in the Chapter XIII, Of Eclipses, in his SECOND BOOKE OF THE HISTORIE OF NATVRE:
Also that the Sunne and Moone twice in thirtie daies
were darkened above the earth: howbeit seene this was not equally in all quarters, but of divers men in divers places: and that which maketh mee to marvell most of all in this wonder, is this, that when agreed it is by all, that the Moone light is dimmed by the shaddow of the earth,
one while this eclipse happeneth in the West, and another while in the East: as also, by what reason it happened, that seeing after the Sunne is up, that shaddow which dusketh the light of the Moone, must needs be under the earth: it fell out once, that the Moone was eclipsed in the West, and
both planets to be seen above the ground in our horison. For that in twelve daies both these lights were missing, and neither Sun nor Moone were seene: it chaunced in our time, when both the Vespasians (Emperors) were Consuls, the father the third time, and the son the second.
(Now, Plinius does not realize that, the Moon could not be dimmed by the shadow of the Earth, given that BOTH eclipses happened at the same time)
From America, Christopher Columbus also wrote to the king and the queen of Spain about the simultaneous eclipses:
This that I have said is what I have heard. What I know is that the year 94 I sailed in 24 degrees to the west in 9 hours, and it could not be mistake because
there were eclipses: the sun was in Libra and the moon in Ariete.From Columbus words is clear that double eclipses were also known to the king and to the queen.
On a flat earth model, which must take into account the Book of Enoch, these star trails are very easy to explain, as I have shown above.
That the Earth is indeed flat, there should be no doubt about it.
Port Credit - Toronto, 14.5 km, 4 meter curvature, absolutely nonexistent, completely flat surface of the lake:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chapstickaddict/698091630/