Dave Heil wrote:
The terms are used by meteorologists and scientists as well as laymen.
Yet I know of no one who believes the Sun is moving across the sky.

But lots of people believed the sun was moving across the
sky when the term "sun rising" was coined. The rising of
the sun was and is an illusion. The sun does not rise -
it just sits there in space.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com