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thanks for your patience with me and explaining things.. i have a better view of things now and will be ale to answer the question i was given..

i'm still curious about those on the equator.. if you'll allow me to repeat myself once more.. If I am standing on the equator in midsummer... looking at the night sky at midnight.. now.. suddenly the sun is gone, and someone on the complete opposite side of the equator is looking up at the...

I think it is slowly dawning on me.. it wouldn't be an entirely different set of constellations.. as someone on the opposite side of the northern hemisphere from you would still be able to see some of the same constellations due to the proximity to the north pole.. so looking north, they would...

I don't think northern/southern hemisphere really makes a difference to my question.. For example in the northern hemisphere, you can always sea the big dipper or ursa major or however it is called.. so imagine now that you are looking up at the night sky.. now imagine that the sun were to...

i mean, it's nighttime here in australia.. if the sun theoretically suddenly wasn't there, wouldn't the people on the other side of the planet see an entirely different starry sky? I mean at this very moment.. and wouldn't that be the sky that i would see in 6 months from now?

yes.. i know that.. i was answering the OP..

sorry.. i still don't get.. what do you mean we see in all directions? i'm picturing the earth and me standing on it looking up... i can see everything in front of me, to the north, south east and west and upward in those directions too.. but i can't see the stars that are on the other side of...

If you threw a ball up in the air while travelling in an aeroplane, what would you expect to happen?

OK firstly, I would like to say that I am not personally into astronomy. However, I do have a question that I have been pondering over that I hope someone here might help me answer. Full disclosure this question was given to me by a flat earther, which I am not.. I am genuinely seeking a...