Neptune

Neptune is the second of the solar system planets that cannot be directly seen from the Earth using the naked eye and as with the planet Uranus, the God carving for the planet on the Dendera Zodiac is also an indirect reference. The Egyptian cat God Bastet is shown on the illustration on the right and in ancient mythology is the equivalent to the Greek God Artemis, who was the niece of Neptune and the goddess of the Moon. The carving is therefore showing Neptune indirectly, and the staff of the Neptune God has three sections to it representing the three prongs of the trident that Neptune classically carries with him. The two lines running to the left of the God's staff have fish attached to them marking out the Pisces zodiac sign and completing the association with Neptune.

The illustration currently shows the Dendera Zodiac in its natural state with no rotations applied to the stones and with the Artemis, indirectly representing Neptune, highlighted in the night sky circle. The decryption rotations need to be applied to the stone circles to be able to start to analyse the manner in which Neptune is encoded into the carving, which can be performed by clicking the next button.


The starting lines and circles for the formation geometry of Neptune can now be added to the illustration using the experience from the previous pages where the principal astronomy angle lines of the previous planet, Uranus, are moved to the opposite focal point to the one that was used to solve that planet's geometry system. The three astronomy angles and the focal points of the Uranus planet system's orbit and the celestial axes can be shown on the illustration by clicking on the following button.

1) RESOLVING THE FRAMEWORK OF NEPTUNE

The staff of the Neptune God is aligned to perfection with the focal point on which the Uranus geometry is centered, and analysis of the angle of this staff line shows that it is, as always, taken from the ephemeris data of the previous planet and has a value of 1/4 of the true anomaly angle of Uranus, 12.397708238°. The staff line can be added to the illustration by clicking the next button.


The hand of the Neptune God on the staff line is created by reflecting the Uranus focal point in the X axis and then rotating that point onto the God's staff line using the angle already determined and the Uranus secondary focal point as the center of rotation. These two points are marked on the illustration using small yellow marker circles and the rotation device to determine the hand of the God is displayed in the carving by the arm of the Neptune God be curved rather than straight.

The celestial axes can now be animated into their new position. The alignment of the axes was determined by investigating the system on a graphics application and trying all of the various permutations until the alignment of the astronomy lines for Neptune and the GM alignment line, which are added in the next section, fitted the carved structure and had a logical system to them. The new origin is located at the hand of the Neptune God with the north axis pointing towards the left of the screen, perpendicular to the Neptune God's staff line, and this arrangement can be animated onto the illustration using the next button.

2) SOLVING NEPTUNE USING NASA DE441 DATA

The construction lines from the Uranus planet used in the formation geometry can be removed from the illustration by clicking the next button, leaving Neptune's celestial axes and the Neptune God, Artemis, on the illustration and also adding the GM Standard Gravitational Parameter carving to the bottom of the outer frame.


It is now possible animate Neptune's three principal astronomy angles onto the illustration in the same manner as was done on all previous pages. In order to do this the NASA ephemeris data is required for the Neptune planet system, which includes Neptune and its numerous moons rotating around a common barycenter, at the moment given in DE441 for the geometric winter solstice of 2729 BCE.

The first of the astronomy angles to be animated is the longitude of the ascending node angle of the Neptune planet system's orbit projected from the ICRF reference plane onto the plane of the orbit of The Moon, which is the plane of the Dendera Zodiac. This can be shown on the illustration by clicking the following button.


The argument of periapsis is the next angle that can be plotted by clicking the following button.


The focal points of the orbit of the Neptune planet system can now be marked onto the green apsis line.


The final of the three principal astronomy angles is the true anomaly and this can be animated onto the illustration by clicking the next button.


The coloured arcs can be removed from the animation to leave just the celestial axes and the three principal astronomy angles of Neptune by clicking the next button.


The geometric alignments can be checked by making sure that the GM line for Neptune points to a distinctly carved principal feature of the Dendera Zodiac. This can be checked by taking the value of GM for Neptune from the raw NASA DE441 data in table 19, 6836527.10058, splitting it into its component parts that will be used in the next section when the data is being extracted, 68, 36, 52, 71 and 58, adding these together to give 285 degrees. This angular value can be plotted onto the illustration as a line rotated clockwise around the celestial axes center point starting from the celestial north direction, and the resulting location of that line can be seen by clicking the following button.


The GM line aligns with the intersect of the local Y axis and central body element in the Standard Gravitational Parameter carving at the bottom of the Dendera Zodiac, which is Neptune's alignment from the raw NASA DE441 data prior to having that data corrected. It now can be understood how the gravity carving was created. Neptune's GM line is the principal planet GM line that dictates the location and shape of the GM carving, and all of the other planet's positions on the inner night sky circle have been carefully adjusted geometrically so that their GM lines will also align to the same carved location.

The geometric system finishes with the movement of the astronomy lines and celestial axes that was seen on the previous pages and are moved to the western focal point of the planet system's orbit. As with the Uranus planet system, the geometry lines are not rotated during the translation of their center point onto the focal point. This subtle transition can be animated onto the illustration by clicking the following button.

3) EXTRACTING THE EPHEMERIS DATA FOR NEPTUNE

The astronomy lines of the Neptune system are no longer required and, by clicking the next button, they can be removed from the illustration to leave just the celestial axes of Neptune centered on the western focal point and with the gravity carving showing at the base of the sculpture.

4) THE DENDERA EPHEMERIS DATA FOR NEPTUNE

The full ephemeris data for the Neptune planet system at the moment of the geometric winter solstice in 2729 BCE, taken entirely from the Dendera Zodiac, is shown below in table 20. The values in the table that were not directly extracted from the stonework have been calculated from the extracted values using the software than runs this website by applying standard celestial mechanics formulae.

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