Dear Nilesh…
Hats off to you. But first, some info…
In my first job, my first boss had given me my first assignment, which I completed in no time, and submitted my report. He then called me and asked me, whether I know the most idiotic person in the world?
I told him that I did not. Then he told me that the person who named the ocean as “Pacific Ocean” was the person who can be considered as the most idiotic person.
He then added that while Pacific Ocean is the only ocean which has man-eating sharks who are dangerous, and are not found in any other ocean, and how can such an ocean be considered Pacific (calmer than calm) when it has maximum disturbance within its body? That mistake he must have done only by watching the surface of the ocean for taking that decision.
He then advised me ‘never to jump to conclusions by looking at a surface’, but always go deep within to find the truth.I accepted his advised and did the assignment all over again, this time reaching to an entirely different inference. Since then, I have followed the said practice.
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Mildly, the same is said by saying “Never judge a book by its cover”, but it does not convey the seriousness involved.
Why do I say this all…?
Finally, I used the Demo package of SkyGazer. Because you had specified that Lakshman saw a comet near Mula nakshatra and had arrived at the year 12209 BCE, I straight went to that year and located 2P/Encke.
I spent the whole day on SkyGazer, and also noticed dozens of other comets too. But to check and find which one was in the region of Mula nakshatra and when, was not an easy task, when one was required to check so many comets for a period of many thousand years. All other astronomical observations were also required to be checked.
By spending just one day on the SkyGazer, I realised the input you were required to put in and the time and constraints you must have felt while doing so, while proceeding completely in the dark.
Hats off to you…. for not just working on the surface, but to go deep within, to get to the truth.
I just hope that the people who are trying to prove you wrong, just try using even the Demo version of SkyGazer to see the difficulty one faces. From the millions of stars, it is not easy to locate what you want to study.
Great job!
MA
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