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Creation Day 4 God reveals His "heavenly clocks" in the night and day sky
Adjustment #2: Tilting of earth's rotational axis to an angle of 23.5 o
Polaris The North Star
The stars in northern hemisphere rotate counterclockwise around the North Star, Polaris. With a steady mount and long exposures, photographers can take 24 hour images of star trails. The star trails, pictured on the right, reflect Earth's daily 24-hour rotation, or spin, around its axis. Do you know why God tilted Earth’s rotational axis to always point in the same direction? The answer is simple. By tilting earth's rotational axis to 23.5 degrees, God created our four yearly seasons to:
• evenly distribut e sunlight to every corner of the earth. • prevent temperature extremes anywhere on the planet. Here is how it works.
The Earth's rotational axis is the imaginary line through the earth that extends from the North Pole to the South Pole. As Earth spins at an average speed of 1034 miles/hour, stars in the night sky appear to rotate counterclockwise around the North Star, Polaris. Before compasses and GPS, sailors, like Christopher Columbus, used Polaris to guide them across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and beyond. God aligned Earth’s axis to point at an angle of 23.5 in the direction of the North Star or Polaris, located at the tip of the constellation Ursa Minor (known also as the Little Dipper). Keep in mind that the North Star (Polaris) is famous NOT for its brightness, but for that fact that it hardly moves in the night sky.
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