Okay this is my first actual post, I have responded a few times.
This subject has been posted - I did searches for it, but the problem is that the posts quickly devolved into name calling and theory flinging.
I think one reason is that the scope of the discussion increases and I want to try and keep the scope down to this Post
The question is - the rotation of the stars as viewed from different places on the HemiRegions. This is not about the Sun, Moon, etc.
Now for the FlatEarth the sky revolves around the FlatEarth. The point it revolves around is the Pole. As seen from the ground at a Northern point above the Equator you can watch the stars revolve around Polaris in a CounterClockwise direction.
For a RoundEarth the earth spins instead of the sky - but the visual effect will be the same as for a persons point of reference they are stationary.
My question is what happens in the South HemiRegion? With the Flat Earth model, being somewhat close to the Circumferential limit, lets say Punta Arenas Chile what would be seen in a Flat Earth?
The RoundEarth the view is almost the same as in the Northern HemiRegion, except that it revolves around a different star - HIP 104328. Facing south the stars rotate Counterclockwise.
As far as I can tell - since in the FlatEarth, the sky is fixed at an altitute and rotates around Polaris, the sky should be rotating Counterclockwise facing north - towards the Pole at any point on the earth.
But every Solarium program I downloaded shows the sky rotating around a fixed point facing South when in the SouthernHemiRegion.
On a FlatEarth, facing south there should be no fixed star - they should all continue to move.
Now I made a few assumptions.
A> Flat Earth sky is indeed fixed at an altitute - the stars do not float around at differing speeds. This ensures that all the constallations remain in the positions that they should be.
B> The software programs were not provided by conspirators. I make this assumption becuase 1) solarium programs run off data that is freely available found in navigation charts 2) navigation charts are correct for the simple reason that people can use them.
The preferred software I found was an OpenGL program found at
http://www.stellarium.org/C> Although I did not "study" the sky when I was in Punta Arenas, it behaved no differently than in other places I have been.
Berny