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From: "giuseppe savarese" <thecaptainsignals@email.it>
To: <info@siriusresearchgroup.com>
Sent: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:58:57 +0200
Subject: Precession of equinoxes

Dear Sirs,

I apologize in advance for disturbing you, but you are among the few people on the planet today who can understand me. Having my daughter student of the third lyceum I discovered by chance and astonishment that on her text school book of astronomical geography it is stated that the precession of the equinoxes is 20 minutes per year.

Having studied in the years 50s at the nautical school that the precession of equinoxes is about 50 arc seconds, or about 3,3 seconds of time per year, promptly I wrote a letter of complaint to the director of the school, copy to the President of the Republic, for the wrong teaching of astronomical time, specifically the precession of equinoxes, in all public schools.

Further investigations led me to conclude that this wrong concept is wordly widespread even in the brains or top representatives of the so called "scientific community", therefore I wrote a second letter, here attached in copy (a translation of the original Italian letter), to professor Antonino Zichichi, which is self explanatory. Unfortunately the letter is in Italian. Giving to you my excuses for this, I trust that a proper translation could be made by your people.

It seems that it has just been forgotten that the time is simply an angular measurement, thus precipitating the brains of modern students in a new middle age.

Before it will be too late therefore I joyn your efforts in trying to rectify the wrong idea that the precession of the equinoxes, either lunisolar or sirian, is 20 minutes per year, which I consider and offense to any educated modern man and to the ancient as well.

Thanking you in advance

Best regards

Giuseppe Savarese

Thank you kindly for your thought-provoking letter to Professor Antonino Zichichi, and for being a brother-in-arms so to speak. Unfortunately, I do not speak or understand Italian. [...] So it may be a little while before [I can get someone] to translate or interpret the letter for me. Nevertheless, I have a good feeling and understanding of what you are saying, and I truly appreciate your efforts to uncover the truth about the precession phenomenon.

As you probably know, I had published a small paper in the “Journal of Theoretics” almost 7 years ago (see http://www.journaloftheoretics.com/Articles/3-3/uwe.pdf ). My work was to point out the mistakes of the International Astronomical Union and to stimulate discussions, so that others may understand the significance of the following facts:

Over the years, the astronomical research that was initiated and propelled by my father Karl-Heinz Homann, has found many supporters and silent advocates in the scientific community. Sadly, my father suddenly and unexpectedly passed away last week without really seeing the fruits of his labor. But it will be because of good people like you that his torch will continue burning to bring light to this world.

Thank you again for your support, and please keep me posted on the progress you make.

it has been an honour and a good surprise to receive your e-mail for which I thank you. In the same time it has been with sadness that I have learned of your father passing away a few days ago, and I send my sincere condolence to you. By what I have been reading on your web site of Sirius research group your father must have been one of the rare last enlightened men, in mind and spirit, walking on this planet, and for sure by now he is sitting and may be conversating beside he greatest minds of our history. He was a bearer of light, that rare minds that “see” with the power of their reason, more than with the power of their learning, through the misteries of the universe. And a light he has been for me indeed. If it was not for my chance reading of your web site probably I would not have found the courage to address the letter to Prof.Antonino Zichichi. In fact I found somebody who was supporting my reasoning, in a sea of darkness and misconceptions.

As you have probably already realized, I come from the sea. I am a retired merchant navy captain. I have spent a life going around the seas and oceans of the world and I was professionally formed with by now the old system of navigation, that is, until about 1992, the use of sextant, chronometer and astronomical almanac. The foundation of every safe navigation and voyage was always to have a good ship’s position, at any time and every condition. This was implying stars observations during morning and evening twilights and sun’s observations at morning and noon time. So, with the theoretical basis of astronomy received at the nautical school, I have been passing years on the bridge wings of many ships, sextant in hand, observing the sky looking for and waiting for, many times between passing clouds, the right moment to “shoot” the best stars at hand. With the passing of days and months, during long journeys, I was therefore forced to witness the gradual shifting and flowing of the celestial sphere, with stars and constellations slowly completing a 360 degrees per year. After a while and with the years the celestial sphere together with her flowing becomes part of your personality or subconscious.

That was the background from where I found myself, unwillingly and unknowingly, facing that strange idea of the 20 minutes for the precession of the equinoxes. And it is interesting to see that the conclusion of the non existence of these 20 minutes has been reached, in some ways, from two different approaches: your more mathematical and scientific one, and mine more, say, geometric.

It is clear anyway now that this wrong concept of the 20 minutes of precession was born because nobody anymore look at the sky, at the flowing of the celestial sphere. And, because of this fact, in the minds of the great majority of professors and astronomers has taken root the idea that there are at least two celestial spheres, one celestial sphere for one day of 360 degrees and 24 hours, and another one yearly celestial sphere of 360 degrees and 525.600 minutes, an absurdity that people like Prof.Antonino Zichichi so well demonstrate. The celestial sphere instead is only one, but you only realize it if you look at the sky for long time, continuously and for years.

During my last 15 years at sea , during the long sea passages, I have been reading many books concerning mainly ancient history. At the end of all this reading I was forced to change my mind, an U turn of 180 degrees, about the development of science culture and civilization, and I had no choice than to accept the idea that, contrarily to modern conceptions, unbelievable as it may seem, the further back you go in time the more was the knowledge great. The “discovery”, with your support and of your father, of the non existence of the 20 minutes of the precession of equinoxes, has reinforced me in this opinion. The real astronomers, the founders of the measure of time and sky, have been walking on this planet many thousands of years ago and we even don’t know their names, still we don’t understand fully them, but we are only trying to recover, bit by bit, the pieces of a complete knowledge that they, the great ancients, had found and left for us.

I enter often in your web site because there are many interesting articles that are a real enlightment for the mind and spirit.

Thanks for your words.

Let me know, please, if you have any difficulty for the translation [...], in which case I can translate it for you.

Respectfully and with regards

Giuseppe Savarese