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When I looked at the sun starting at sunrise and moving ahead one hour at a time, I

noticed that the sun started in the East and, with the constellations, it moved slowly
more and more towards the South, then toward the West, where it set. It always stayed
in the same position in relation to the constellations.

When I aligned the star Rigel to the Meridian line and increase the window by one day
at a time, I noticed that the star shifted more and more to the West as the Meridian line
shifted South.

I estimate that the star may have moved approximately 1 degree per day.

If you shifted to a sidereal day, the star would move with the Meridian line staying in the
same position relative to the line. You could see this by observing the relationship
between the Meridian line and other fixed stars.

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