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Submitted by Carlos (not verified) on Tue, 2010-04-20 11:41.

Merlin,

If that were correct, the celestial pole would also have shifted.

I have always polar aligned about 3/4 of a degreee from Polaris, towards Kochab.

It gave a good polar align for visual purposes 30 years ago - and it still gives a good polar align for visual purposes now - or at least it did 3 days ago when I was last out observing.

The Earth cannot have tilted by more than the tiniest frction of a degree, otherwise my polar alignments would no longer be good - but they are.

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