Adding a virtual camera to my skywatching app and testing FE azimuth

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I added a virtual pan/tilt/zoom camera feature to my skywatching app and I plan on testing it in the coming weeks and months. I can generate a predicted altitude and azimuth of the sun for the globe as well as the #flatearth. By using a virtual camera that represents a real location, I should be able to generate both past and future animations with realistic (or unrealistic) movements of the sun, moon and stars.

As the autumn equinox is days away, I plan on going back there some minutes before a sunset, weather permitting to then compare the accuracy of the app against real life observations.

If the earth is flat, the direction of the sun at the time of sunset should match the flat earth math, but if we live on a spherical earth, it should match every tool I've used.
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Over 30 years ago I owned an X286 laptop. By today's standards these were not high powered and it only had a B/W screen. I bought an astronomy program called Skyglobe.Even on a 286 it worked super fast. Because I live in a remote northerly area it gets very dark here in the Winters. Using Skyglobe I could switch my location to the Equator, the South pole or the North pole or anywhere else that I chose.
It was interesting to see the Sun not set in Antarctica.
Flerfs are brainless fools!.

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"True North " is a begging the question fallacy. It assumes geographical poles on an axis.

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