A lot of thanks for your contributions for the 'equinoxes naming
problem'. The matter is far from being
a byzanthine discussion: we are trying to provide some useful contents
to the web of the AARS, that is,
the 'Asociacion de Amigos de los Relojes de Sol' and we thought we
should elaborate some kind of
HOW TO manual on Gnomonics that people could download and consult...
Well, the AARS is not
a National Society (like the NASS or the BSS) but rather a linguistic
one, that is, it is explicitly open
to anyone understanding Spanish language: we've got members from Chile,
Venezuela etc, so we
must make a text useful for both hemispheres...
Now you can't imagine how many mistakes of, let's call it,
'septentrio-centrism' can one make just in
a single page! The language doesn't help either, and here's were the
problem appears.
I agree with Art Carlson that scientific names must be as descriptive
as possible, so we shouldn't
call them for instance 'points A and B'... and that's why I prefer his
proposal of calling them just
'March and September equinoxes' better than 'Dragon's head and tail' as
Peter Mayer suggested
(which one is the head and the tail?). However, this is just a personal
opinion, and I admit that Peter's
suggestion is more poetical. And after all, maybe it's hightime we
northerns let southerns speak.
Best regards,
Anselmo Perez Serrada
41º37'34'' N 4º44'27'' W
PS: Rudolph, your hypothesis seems rather interesting and hopeful. Let's
hope we could confirm it soon!!!
Today, I noted a bright luminous phenomenon in the sky, somewhere behind the
haze, in - as far as I could make out so quickly - the approximate position
the sun would normally have occupied. I therefore believe it possible that
the sun still exists.
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