Predict the date of the six-star alignment, and you'll be fine?

Of course not, as an astronomy enthusiast and professional, how can you be satisfied with such a superficial prediction.

But if you want to improve in precision, there is another thing that must be precisely defined, and that is time.

The biggest reason why this work has not been done is that the original observation data is insufficient. Although after becoming a full-fledged magician, before preparing to start exploring the starry sky, I thought about defining these tools precisely. Even if it didn't reach the height of the 21st century of the earth, it was much better than the rough way of the natives of the Lost World.

But this work, which should be very important, has not been carried out, and the main thing is that I used to have to run for a living. In order to save an application fee for entering the magic tower, Lin Ke took two magic apprentices who couldn't even meditate to start a wild life of birth and death. Maybe the statement of wildness is an exaggeration, but the magical enlightenment of the two girls was really completed in the wilderness.

The time that can stay in Wulian City is basically waiting for the next good job opportunity, or occasionally picking up some work that can be completed in the city, but this kind of work is very rare. In that kind of running around, there is naturally no way to make good astronomical observations and record data.

It wasn't until he settled in the Tower of the Great Sage that the situation was definitely improved. It can be said that this magic tower, in addition to computerizing it as the most important calculation tool, is to give Lin a fixed place to observe celestial bodies with peace of mind.

As for the source of income originally considered, it was planned to rely on the association's monthly subsidy to eat and wait for death. Therefore, Lin is still quite concerned about the progress of the two apprentices, after all, their achievements are related to the amount of their subsidies. However, the unexpected benefits of the browser and the forum have made it much more abundant.

It has been a year and six months since he was stationed in the Tower of the Great Sage. The observation data is considered to have accumulated to a certain extent, and then the calculations can be carried out.

Considering the possibility of expanding his manpower in the future to include the great business of calculation and observation, Lin did not intend to recreate a new calendar. Rather, it expands and defines the original calendar and timekeeping methods of the world until they are accurate.

That being said, there are many different calendars in the world itself. And for the definition of time, there is almost no one. Even if he is as strict as a magician, no one seems to care about this kind of thing.

If there is a calendar that is more accepted by the majority of people, and is also used by the vast majority of magicians, it is the Aramaic calendar established by the sect of Enki, the god of knowledge, the representative deity of the eight powers.

The shortest point of the sundial's shadow is recorded. The shortest point of a cycle is 365 days, which is the year as defined by the Aramaic calendar. There are thirteen months, corresponding to the names of the twelve ancient gods, and one month has no name, and some people call it the Hidden Moon.

Each month is exactly the twenty-eight days of a cycle of Nanna, which is divided into four weeks, each of which has seven days. And there is a day that is not a single day that does not belong to any month. It is up to the astrologers to decide which day or month this solitary day, as well as the previously mentioned hidden moon, falls between them, and there are no rules to follow that can be identified at a glance.

But under Lin's observations, the number of days per year should be 365.2422 days. That is, there will be one more day every four years, but one less day every one hundred and twenty-eight years......

If it weren't for the fact that there were two satellites in the sky, Lin would have doubted some possibilities when he looked at the calculated numbers. As for the time when the Hidden Moon and the Duri should be placed, Lin suspects that there is also a rule, but the matrix of the cycle is so large that it is ignored by this world without mathematics. This part is to collect the past calendars, compare them, and summarize them before it can be confirmed.

As for the time of day, it was determined in a curious study after digitizing eight power units. A change in a unit of power is set at one unit of time, and whether this change is added by one or subtracted by one, a solar day will pass by 86,400,000 unit seconds.

And this time, no matter which power is used as the unit of observation, or whether the power of multiple units increases or decreases by the same number of units, it is also one unit of second.

Then one of the traversers shuddered again. It's like the old sci-fi movie I watched, at the end of the first episode of Planet of the Apes in the 60s, I went back to the surface and thought that the astronauts who came to an alien planet would roar in pain when they saw the collapsed Statue of Liberty. It's how I feel right now.

With trepidation, one unit of second is redefined as one millisecond, a thousand milliseconds is equal to one second, sixty seconds is one minute, sixty minutes is an hour, and a solar day has twenty-four hours. This will result in the previously calculated number of days in a year of 365.2422 days. And is this result some kind of bizarre coincidence, or is there some other reason? No solution......

Putting aside the distractions of not having answers, Lin set up a third server, the standard time server, in addition to the name server and the web server. But it has not been announced to the public for the time being, and only the master and apprentice are using it.

Once he had the exact time, Lin used the Bright Light magic to form a ball of light to simulate the relative positions of the six planets and the sun in the star system. And calculate the exact time when the six planets entered the sector at the minimum angle.

If you want to actually observe, the fourth planet in the star system, and the three planets between the sun and the sun, the blazing, the intelligent, and the earth, must be observed by special means. Even in the Lost Land, the human eye cannot look directly at the sun, and there is no associated magic to avoid.

On the other side, the connection between the force and the energy star may be blocked by the phenomenon of lunar eclipses. However, all this depends on the area where the Great Sage's Tower is located, what kind of phenomena can be observed, or nothing can be observed. After all, the Lost Earth Star rotates, and the Great Sage's Tower is only a small dot on the Lost Earth Star, and it is impossible to observe the complete Zhou Tian starry sky with the naked eye.

However, when the results of the calculation came out, Lin was once again stunned, and the Tower of the Great Sage happened to be in the area where the total lunar eclipse could be observed. That is to say, when the six plus two stars are aligned, the tower of the great sage is also on the shadow side of this straight line, impartial.

After several calculations in a row, the same result was obtained, which reminded Lin of a sentence on the earth: too many coincidences are not coincidences.

This series of coincidences made a trace of uneasiness rise in someone's heart. It's hard to look at what will happen this time with a simple mood of welcoming an astronomical event. Because this is a mysterious side world with gods and magic.

Maybe a few stars are aligned, and on earth it can only be used as a means of political propaganda by ancient emperors, and in fact, nothing has happened. But in the world of Mazeland, Lin didn't dare to have such thoughts. Not only had he learned to use magic, but he had even seen real miracles several times, such as flesh and bones, and the resurrection of the dead, which were by no means explained by the earth sciences he knew.

In the following time, Lin did not wait for the results to come. Instead, they are constantly adding a variety of factors to refine the galaxy map they are modeling. It contains the size and mass of each planet, the orbit and the angle and distance of the planet, and the moons and asteroid belts that can be observed. By adding new elements, taking into account the gravitational attraction of the planets to each other, the prediction value of the six-star alignment was simulated again and again, and the same result was obtained.

To be honest, to this extent, Lin has already begun to feel hairy in his heart.

Sitting in the core room, on a rotating chair next to the console, he spun around and looked at the planetary distribution map formed by the light magic. After inputting parameters such as orbit, speed, and planetary eigenvalues into the program, the computerized magic tower is dynamically evolved with multiples according to the date and data that Lin began to observe after coming to the tower of the great sage. And one of the water mirror screens in front of the console is the time represented by the change of the star map.

From a sphere of light that originally represented the planet Lost Earth, the positions of each planet and heliostar were added to the star map one by one as the observation data increased. The increased parameters are also reflected in the photospheres representing the planets and stars; For example, if you add the radius of the star, the photosphere will increase in equal proportions. Then the running track is generated, and the revolution begins.

On the ball of light representing the maze, an arrow was erected, which represented the position of the tower of the great sage on the maze. It also shows the rotation of the planet. When the time runs to the end, it is not supported by observational data, but by predicting the trajectory, and the star map stops at the position of the six star alignments. The moons and arrows of the Lost Earth star point to the two planets of the Earth and the Earth. The time was three days later, at 11:54 a.m.

Then Lin threw up......

Sitting in the swivel chair and turning too many times, the tricircular canal lost its balance, so Lin fell off the chair, fell to his knees, and vomited a mess.

Urgently called two little apprentices to clean up the mess, and Lin was slumped in his chair, staring blankly at the dynamic star map changes that were circulating back and forth.

While cleaning up the mess, the two girls watched the ball of light spin. "Wow, that's beautiful." Teacher, what is this? ”

"This is our galaxy. The largest one in the middle is the Sun Star. ”

Looking at the balls of light that filled half of the small core room, the two girls counted the six small balls of light that were spinning around the periphery in order. "Blazing, wise, sitting, obsessed, powerful, and capable. Teacher, is that the size right? Why is it that the land is similar to a firefly, but the sun star is so big? ”

With such a question, Lin's sluggish spirit was lifted again. If you think about the astronomical observation data of the ancient people on the earth, they are all measured in years, or even centuries. I've only been recording for a little over a year, so maybe it's the lack of data that causes errors in calculations and predictions.

But then he went limp. It's just that in the star system, the stars that can be observed with the naked eye will be wrong, so do you still have to think about the stars outside the star system?

In the future, will we launch artificial satellites, build space telescopes, and find ways to minimize the interference factors in the atmosphere? Countless problems to be solved make a certain crossing feel that there are gains and losses.