[tacticalogic]

The ball is in your court mrjesse. Given that we know that it takes light 8.3 minutes to get to our observer on the equator from the Sun, how do you explain that the Sun is exactly where it appears to be if the earth is spinning, but 2.1 degrees off if the Sun is rotating the earth.

I believe that's because the light you are seeing left the sun 8.3 minutes ago, on a vector 2.1 degrees ahead of you, and you rotated into it.

[LeGrande]

I believe that's because the light you are seeing left the sun 8.3 minutes ago, on a vector 2.1 degrees ahead of you, and you rotated into it.

For a few minutes at dawn you would be correct, then you would be wrong for the rest of the day. At dusk the reverse would happen and you would still see the light after the sun had actually settled beyond the horizon .