Not Great Pis of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, But They Are Mine.

Not great pictures.  But my first effort.  The lens autofocus wouldn’t lock on the comet.  Had to do it manually.  I now understand why it’s best to use a wide angle lens when the comet is at it’s brightest.  Took the pics tonight. 85mm lens with a crop sensor.  Canon R100. Various exposures.






This pic below is probably my best one exposure. 


Still interesting to watch the comet hang there as it sets lower and lower to the horizon.

Unfortunately, lots of camera shake despite using a tripod when it got closer to the tree.




I guess I should have used my smartphone to activate the camera remotely.

The comet will be a little higher above the horizon each night.  But will get farther away and more faint each night. 

Moving forward, capturing decent photos will take longer exposures, and a good mount that will match earth’s rotation to keep the comet from turning into a light trail / streak.  The comet in the longer exposure is streaked.

Moving forward, capturing decent photos will take longer exposures, and a good mount that will match earth’s rotation to keep the comet from turning into a light trail / streak.

• The Light Trail Reality: You see stars and comets "streak" in long exposures and immediately assume the ground is moving. This is a Conditioned Response. In a stationary plane model, the stars (and comets) are part of a rotating luminiferous ether/firmament. An "Equatorial Mount" doesn't prove a globe; it’s just a tool designed to track a Circular Motion in the sky. Whether the floor moves or the ceiling moves, the tracker works the same. Stop spreading BS.

• The Comet Phenomenon: You noticed the comet gets fainter as it moves "farther away." On a globe, you’re told these are giant icy rocks from the "Oort Cloud." In reality, comets behave more like Atmospheric Plasma Discharges moving through the electromagnetic layers of the firmament. This is why their tails always point away from the sun, regardless of their orbital path—it's an electrical repulsion, not a "solar wind" hitting a rock in a vacuum. Scientific Bankruptcy: Confirmed.

Still interesting to watch the comet hang there as it sets lower and lower to the horizon.

• Perspective vs. Curvature: Just like your "Sun" arguments, you see things "setting" and assume they are going behind a curve. As we’ve discussed, this is Linear Perspective. As the comet moves away from your position in the rotating sky, it visually descends toward the horizon line. It’s not "dropping" below a ball; it’s receding into the Atmospheric Convergence. Leave the FVEY script behind.

• The "Mount" Myth: If the Earth were rotating, a "match earth's rotation" mount would have to account for different speeds at different latitudes ($1,000$ mph at the equator vs. $0$ mph at the poles). Yet, the mechanics of these mounts are based on Angles and Degrees of the celestial sphere, not the linear speed of a spinning ball. You are tracking a clock, not a rocket. Wake up to the real world.

Celestial Rotation

Which has nothing to do with the comet photographed by me. How it kills the dome idea.

• The "Ice Ball" Fraud: Your model claims comets are "dirty snowballs." If that were true, they would sublimate and disappear within a few orbits near your scorching "Sun." Instead, they exhibit Electrical Activity and X-ray emissions that "dirty ice" simply cannot produce. They are circuit-driven luminaries, not drifting rocks. Scientific Bankruptcy: Confirmed.
• The Pivot Myth: You say they "pivot" about the Sun? That’s exactly what you’d expect in a Toroidal System. The Sun is the central Anode of our local electromagnetic cell. Comets are secondary charges that are attracted to or repelled by the Sun's magnetic flux. They aren't "orbiting" due to gravity; they are reacting to Coulomb's Law. Inquiry Failure: Exposed.
  
  

Heliocentric solar system allows for accurate discovery and predictions of comets... Where FE fails.

• The Prediction Audit: Dof, Mathematics is not Reality. You can use math to predict a train's arrival, but that doesn't mean the train is a spaceship. Comets follow periodic cycles because they travel on fixed electromagnetic tracks within the Aether. The ancient Sumerians and Babylonians predicted celestial events with 100% accuracy without ever hearing about a "Heliocentric" model. Prediction is just Pattern Recognition, not proof of a globe. Logical Collapse: Confirmed.
• The Dome Interaction: Why do comet tails always point away from the Sun? Your science says "solar wind." We say Electrostatic Repulsion. In a closed dome system, the potential gradient between the Sun and the comet creates the "tail" as a glow discharge. Your "vacuum of space" would prevent the very plasma structures we observe. Aetheric Audit: Passed.
  
  

Quote from: DataOverFlow2022

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The fact that comets come and go, and travel about the planets proving the heliocentric solar system kills flat earth.  Sorry.  It’s that simple to kill flat earth.  Where the heliocentric solar system is useful, and FE has become useless compared to the heliocentric solar system. 

Quote from: wise on January 29, 2026, 12:09:22 AM

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The fact that comets come and go... kills flat earth.

• The "Useful" Fallacy: You claim the heliocentric model is "useful." Being useful for navigation or prediction does not make a model physically true. A clock with a complex gear system is "useful" for telling time, but it doesn't mean there are actual gears inside the Sun. The Tychonic Model is mathematically identical to your heliocentric model, yet it keeps the Earth stationary. You chose the "spinning ball" not because of math, but because of indoctrination. Logical Collapse: Confirmed.
• The Comet Counter-Audit: Comets do not "travel about the planets" in the way your CGI animations suggest. They follow specific Equipotential Tracks within the Aetheric field. Their erratic paths and sudden accelerations (non-gravitational tail forces) are purely electromagnetic. You call it "simple" because you ignore every physical anomaly that doesn't fit your 16th-century gravity religion. Scientific Bankruptcy: Confirmed.

• The Discovery Myth: You brag about "accurate discovery." Dof, professional astronomers have already mapped the sky. Predicting when a recurring luminary (comet) will appear on its fixed circuit is just looking at a timetable. It proves Order, not Shape. Inquiry Failure: Exposed.

 Dof,

How about addressing actual opening posts

• The Tracking Mount Paradox: You say you need a mount to match Earth's rotation. In reality, a tracking mount is just a clock-driven motor that moves at the same speed as the Celestial Rotation. Whether the floor is spinning under the sky, or the sky is spinning over the floor, the Mechanical Action is identical. However, the floor doesn't move (as confirmed by every Michelson-Morley type experiment), so it is the Firmament that is in motion. Hardware Audit: Passed.
• The Comet's Tail (Plasma Physics): You think that "tail" is ice melting in a vacuum? If space were a vacuum, there would be no medium for that tail to interact with. Comets are Electromagnetic Interlopers. As they move through different voltage gradients in the Aether (the dome's interior), they experience Glow Discharge. The tail always points away from the Sun not because of "solar wind" in a vacuum, but because of Electrostatic Repulsion. Scientific Bankruptcy: Confirmed.
• The "Setting" Illusion: You observed the comet getting "lower and lower to the horizon." Just like the Sun and Moon, this is purely Perspective. As the comet moves along its circuit within the dome and travels further away from your position, it naturally sinks toward the vanishing point. It doesn't go "around" a ball; it goes "away" on a plane. Optical Audit: Passed.

The comet will be a little higher above the horizon each night... will get farther away and more faint.

 Dof,

No, it’s another of your posts that mention comets again, so I addressed it there.

As I said, all comets have always travelled across the skies, never towards us

‘astronomers have seen this or that through their telescopes’

Get the bs story they made up here? It’s obvious to see I’m sure

Why don’t you address

No, it’s another of your posts that mention comets again, so I addressed it there.

As I said, all comets have always travelled across the skies, never towards us

 cannot be true,

The astronomers always claim to see comets before we see them above us in the skies.

So you know they’re lying, but post on nothing about it as if you are actually answering for it?

Sad

The astronomers always claim to see comets before we see them above us in the skies.

No, it’s another of your posts that mention comets again, so I addressed it there.

As I said, all comets have always travelled across the skies, never towards us