In essence, this kind of question prompted a myriad of investigations, researches, experiments and observations that eventually led my father to some important findings, which I believe are bound to have serious scientific implications.

Perhaps his most important finding resulted from his experiment involving Sirius. His hypothesis was that if Sirius possesses any unusual celestial motion relative to the orientation of Earth’s rotational axis in space it would have to show up in the transit periods of Sirius over the years.

The scientific method he employed is simple. Using a fixed mounted telescope with a 25x magnification as a basic transit instrument and the UTC atomic time signal, he recorded the actual time when Sirius passed the crosshair every day.

The idea behind this method is that the more transits of Sirius recorded, the higher will be the accuracy for calculating its mean transit time. In other words, if we take the total time interval between the first and the last recorded transit and divide it by the total number of transits, we get an average figure for that particular observation period.

The most important factor, aside from making this observation from a single location over a period of several years, is accessing a precise reference signal (atomic time) and, of course, to immobilize the instrument.

Given the complexity of the data he collected and interpreted, all I can do here now is to refer you to our website, where you can find Karl’s detailed explanations of the recorded transits which he began to document in 1988.

I do want to make it perfectly clear that these observations and measurements are based on the principles of exact science. And to paraphrase Sir Arthur Eddington, they are not observations of approximate coincidences of a pointer reader with a scale division.

The result of these observations confirms the astronomical fact that Earth’s rotation period relative to Sirius is almost exactly identical to the so-called ‘mean sidereal' or ‘equinoctial day’.

Yet under the current lunisolar precession model such measurements can only be made from a wobbling Earth and the result should have been a significantly longer ‘mean’ transit time for Sirius.

Let me try and put this in another way, because we need the connecting background to make sense of this important result.

According to the current scientific understanding about the cause of Precession, not a single star should be observed to move at the same rate as the equinox relative to the zodiac.

However, my father’s observations prove that Sirius does NOT show the usual stellar motion of roughly 50” per year relative to the changing orientation of Earth’s axis in space.

Evidently, when the ancient Egyptians used Sirius as the marker of time for their solar based calendar system, they made a wise choice.

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