Context matter. Seems the article is talking about year round.
No. It is not. It is the sentence right below the heading of "Why is the equinox important for permaculture?"
In the Round Earth model the sun does not rise from directly east on the equinox day, except at the equator.
Think about it. If you are located on the Tropic of Capricorn why would the sun come out of the earth from a direction that is directly Eastwards at a time when the sun is located over the equator?
Because the celestial equator crosses the horizon directly eastward and westward of an observer on the surface of the earth, and the sun is on the celestial equator at the equinox.
The sun would only come out of the horizon directly Eastwards when the sun was over the Tropic of Capricorn.
Nope.
It's a myth.
Nope. You're just mistaken.
Here is another myth: The length of day and night is the same everywhere on earth during equinox.
In 2015 Deborah Scherrer of the Standford Solar Center provided a document titled Ancient Observatories - Timeless Knowledge. On page 39 we see the following:
Calculating the Equinoxes
Most dictionaries erroneously define the equinox as: “the time or date (twice each year) at which the Sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of equal length (about September 22 and March 20)”. However, there is no place on Earth where the day and night are of equal length on the given days.
Latitude Determines Day Length
In fact, latitude determines day length. Even if day and night aren’t exactly equal on the day of the equinox, there are days when day and night are both very close to 12 hours. However, this date depends on the location’s latitude, and can vary by as much as several weeks. The table shows approximate dates for when day and night are as similar as possible according to latitude.
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As we can see, the equal days and equal nights on equinox does not really happen at all. In fact, closer to the equator the time of equal day and equal night (the "equilax") is separated from the date of the equinox by several weeks.
You stopped reading that article too soon. Immediately after the table, on p.40 in the cited publication, the author explains why this is the case:
Geometry Affects Day Length
On the equator, the day and night stay approximately the same length all year round, but the day will always appear a little longer than 12 hours. On the equinoxes, the geometric center of the Sun is above the horizon for 12 hours, and you might think that the length of the day (hours of daylight) would be 12 hours too. However, ‘sunrise’ is defined as the moment the upper edge of the Sun's disk becomes visible above the horizon – not when the center of the Sun is visible. In the same sense, ‘sunset’ refers to the moment the Sun's upper edge, not the center, disappears below the horizon. The time it takes for the Sun to fully rise and set, which is several minutes, is added to the day and subtracted from the night, and therefore the equinox day lasts a little longer than 12 hours.
Refraction Affects Day Length
Another problem is that the Earth's atmosphere refracts, or bends, sunlight. This causes the Sun’s upper edge to be visible from Earth several minutes before the edge actually reaches the horizon. The same thing happens at sunset, when you can see the Sun for several minutes after it has actually dipped under the horizon. So, every day on Earth – including the days of the equinoxes – is at least 6 minutes longer than it would have been without this refraction. Making this even more complicated -- the extent of refraction depends on atmospheric pressure and temperature.
This in no way conflicts with the spherical model of the globe.
You posted a reply as I was composing this one. It pretty much restates the same thing.
Those are illustrations, not proof. Where is the evidence?
The evidence is in the location of the rising and setting sun. You don't even have to trust anyone else's evidence. Go look at it sometime. Do you want me to remind you next March?
The equinox is full of myth.
How can you maintain that an observer at the Tropic of Cancer would see the sun come out of the horizon directly eastwards both on the day the sun is over the Tropic of Cancer and when the the day that the sun is over the equator on Equinox day?
I don't. Where did you think I said that? At the June solstice, the sun is north of the equator so it rises north of due east. Look at the diagrams.
That is an egregious error.
It would be if I did maintain that. I don't.
The sun is rising from Northeastern to Southeastern positions throughout the year, and it makes that back and fourth pattern only once per year.
Right. And it crosses due east twice in a year; once on the way north and once on the way south. On the equinoxes. Which is what is predicted by a spherical earth and sun so distant that parallax is insignificant.
The "equal day and night on Equinox" is a myth as well, as we saw in my last post. Dictionaries, astronomy websites, all wrong. The Stanford Solar Observatory scientist said it herself.
How about proving your assertions?
I'll remind you in March. Then you can see for yourself. How Zetetic is that?
After every post I will ask for evidence.
What do you consider evidence?
Here's a short time-lapse video from England titled
Sun setting due West, Spring Equinox 2018 and self-described: "This video was taken from a location (52.2385, -0.8029) due East of the National Lift Tower" that shows the sun setting behind a tower in the distance. It's less than 50 seconds long
I don't really like videos, but you guys seem to value them, and this seems gives enough information to verify it, if you're so inclined.
You will continue to have no evidence, and due to this lack of evidence, you will continue to lose this debate. Beating you guys is very easy. It is getting to be trivial and boring.
It sounds like you're preparing to declare victory and leave because you're losing. Again.
If truth were on your side you would have mountain of evidence to show us.
We do. We're constantly offering it. It's either summarily ignored, or you slink away and pretend it never happened.
[Edit] Repair link to video.