Layman's explanation: The precession of the equinox is the age-old phenomenon whereby an observer on Earth will notice that after one year (solar, tropical, equinoctial), he will not realign with the exact same point relative to the distant stars. From two to four thousand years ago observers on Earth noticed that the sun on the vernal equinox aligned with the constellation Aries, and in the last few thousand years with Pisces. Now as many know, we are at the "dawning of the age of Aquarius", meaning the sun on the vernal equinox is close to aligning with the constellation of Aquarius. This apparent backward motion of the stars (at the time of the equinox) is the precession of the equinox – whereby the equinoctial point slowly recedes through the 12 constellations of the Zodiac at the present rate of about 1 degree per 71.6 years. If this rate were constant it would take about 25,700 to 25,800 years to complete one full precession of the equinox. However,
the annual rate is now speeding up, meaning the calculated
length of one full cycle is getting shorter. If the observable of precession is due to an elliptical orbit of our sun around another star, as we believe, then this explains the reason for the variable rate of precession, and also tells us the full cycle will average something different than 25,700 years. All
our calculations lead us to believe the period will average about 24,000 years as will be explained in a later section of this website.
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Next, is the same chart in an "Angular Momentum to Mass ratio" formula. You can see all the bodies in our solar system have ratios in line with their mass except for the Sun.
We then added one input into the existing formula: we assumed the Sun was moving in a binary orbit with a period of 24,000 years.
As you can see, the Sun came right into line.
This indicates the Sun may indeed have it's proper angular momentum (proportional to it's mass) providing another indication our sun is part of a binary or multiple star system
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Precession Model Considerations
We offer here a revised precession model based on a moving solar system, herein called the Binary Model or simply new model in this animation (you can stop or start the animations individually with the controls in the lower right hand corner). Note that both models look very similar and have similar observables.
(see site's animations for a better grasp of the idea)
In both models the point of equinox occurs where the celestial equator (grey disk) intersects the ecliptic (gold disk), which of course occurs twice a year - the first day of Spring and the first day of Autumn. And in both models the equinox moves at the same rate relative to the black background and fixed text (which represents the fixed stars).
The difference in the models is that the conventional model moves the point of equinox by requiring the celestial equator to slip along the ecliptic (a wobbling earth scenario as propounded by lunisolar theory), whereas in the binary model the ecliptic and celestial equator remain fixed (meaning the equinox occurs at the same point every year in the earth’s orbit path around the sun) moving against the background stars simply because the solar system moves.
The only way to easily tell the difference between the two models is by noting the position of an observer (the red X) relative to the equinox, ecliptic and celestial equator. In the conventional model the solar system is static and therefore the observer is stuck in one position (relative to the fixed stars), so the only way the equinox can move relative to the fixed stars is if the point at which the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic is constantly in local motion. In the binary model the observer remains fixed in relation to local markers and the equinox moves because the solar system moves.
The simplest observable of the precession of the equinox is that at the time of the annual equinox we observe that the sun has moved west about 50” from the position it was in the year before – relative to the background stars. Under conventional theory this motion is considered “apparent” with astronomers believing the sun did not actually move – it just “appeared” to move because the earth wobbled by 50”.
But in the new model things are much simpler.
The sun moves across the sky at 50” p/y because this is how much the solar system moves per year (its angular velocity). The “precession of the equinox” then is not an “apparent” motion of the sun – it is a real motion of the sun. The solar system moves!
The PRECESSIONAL CYCLE and the END DATE
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