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RE: A Zodiac Letter from the Monster of Florence? Help Me Decode It

I was looking for transfer sets of the kind that would have been available in the late 1980s. This is a clipping of a used vintage Letraset Cooper Bla…

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RE: A Zodiac Letter from the Monster of Florence? Help Me Decode It

The following presents a highly plausible reconstruction of the prominent error occurring in the 1983 row of the artefact table. Although requiring no…

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RE: A Zodiac Letter from the Monster of Florence? Help Me Decode It

Here is an example ephemeris for 1983, showing solar Right Ascensions for the September. IMG_4907.jpeg

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RE: A Zodiac Letter from the Monster of Florence? Help Me Decode It

What would appear clear to me is that, in contrast to the method of construction deduced so far, the 1983 row requires its own error model. We have sh…

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RE: A Zodiac Letter from the Monster of Florence? Help Me Decode It

Although I am not in any way proposing that this is the source of the difference seen in the seconds column for 1982, it is worth noting that if we re…

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RE: A Zodiac Letter from the Monster of Florence? Help Me Decode It

That is, provided the ephemeris published the solar Right Ascensions according to a 0h UT epoch for 1984. We can immediately rule out any such ephemer…

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RE: A Zodiac Letter from the Monster of Florence? Help Me Decode It

Although unlikely to have been the precise ephemeris consulted, this one would be sufficient to have attained 08h 34m 59s for the event on 29 July 198…

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RE: A Zodiac Letter from the Monster of Florence? Help Me Decode It

Though wanting to remain cautious in not being overconfident, I would regard the specifics detailed in my previous post as incontrovertibly demonstrat…

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RE: A Zodiac Letter from the Monster of Florence? Help Me Decode It

Despite the residual non-correspondences in the seconds column for three rows other than the highlighted 1983 row, we have clear and incontrovertible …

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RE: A Zodiac Letter from the Monster of Florence? Help Me Decode It

We should perhaps return to this point first in isolation, as something I had attempted to address in a previous post but evidently not clearly enough…

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RE: A Zodiac Letter from the Monster of Florence? Help Me Decode It

Modulo 12, that is. I don’t know whether the following will help, but you might get a better understanding if I explain to you why, although the cor…

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RE: A Zodiac Letter from the Monster of Florence? Help Me Decode It

Correction: 09 September 1983 time should be 21:30.

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RE: A Zodiac Letter from the Monster of Florence? Help Me Decode It

Comparing the tabulated values with the RAs deduced using the 1984 baseline, applying the erroneous model of uniformly changing RA and factoring in, f…

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RE: A Zodiac Letter from the Monster of Florence? Help Me Decode It

So, let’s take a look at the right-hand column of triplets and ask what it is that we actually have here. From my reconstruction, I can identify the…

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RE: A Zodiac Letter from the Monster of Florence? Help Me Decode It

These are important questions and, in order to address them, it is relevant to think about where a young novice (such as I propose the author to have …

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