Talk:Tropic of Capricorn

message: I forget where I saw this question, but, yes, parts of the Earth are capitalized, according to the University of Chicago Press Manual of Style, the publishing industry standard.  Ortolan88
* I concur. Akbeancounter 03:45, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalization

message: Can anybody support the contention that the Tropic of Capricorn passes through England?  Anything I'm missing here?  Territories, commonwealths, J.K. Rowling's secret volcano hideout, anything?  Akbeancounter 03:45, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: England?

message: The value specified in the document, 23° 26′ 21,48″, doesn't make sence. Lattitude is specified in Degrees, Minutes and Seconds, or in Degrees with a decimal after it. The actual Latitude page specifies it as 23° 26′ 21″ without a superfulous comma and extra number on the end.. Guessing, is it meant to be 21.48" (eg, 21.48 seconds)? however, I can't seem to find any corroboration. It is often referred to as '23.5 degrees south' which is 23° 30' 00"..  There seems to be some variations on what it actually is, including some easily accessable regerences to the fact that the tropics are expanding.. See http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/eischao.html for a quick summary.  203.51.235.121 11:33, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lattitude?

message: this is for homework... what is the significane of the tropics of capricorn and cancer???  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.187.54.85 (talk) 09:54, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  need info desperately 

message: The reason for the name given in Wikipedia is much more accurate than found elsewhere in other webpages and books. I am glad it is like this! I would try to tell other people and webpages the correct reason too, but this is not always possible. --Zzo38 (talk) 19:14, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Thank you!

message: I see some people keep constantly posting the actual date into the article. It is right the angle does change constantly but the sun is only once a year in actual zenit over the tropic and changes are so minimal with each day that it does not make sense to write 15th of January it was here, 16th of January there. If somebody is willing to write down the mili-second degree it changes everyday than fine by me but its has to be updated every day but if you leave the coordinates that I looked out for the December when the Sun is in actual Zenit over the Tropic and write next to it 1st of February than it's simply wrong. So please stop changing the article all the time or calculate the position of the tropic everyday if you have ample time! I took myself the time to calculate when winter solstice is occurring and where the tropic lies at that specific moment, so if a person wanted to see the sun in Zenit in a given year the point is accurate. I hope this way you finally understand my reasoning!
:Please see my talk page.  I responded to you there. --Lasunncty (talk) 10:46, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing of the Tropic controversy  

message: How long is it, please?
e.g.  Length of the Tropic of Cancer on 11 December 2015, at 23°26′14″N is 36,788 kilometres (22,859 mi). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropic_of_Cancer
Or are we meant to assume ?
 164.215.1.77 (talk) 10:33, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Length 

message: I've looked all over but have been unable to find any reliable population statistice. If anybody finds them could they add them? Malcolmmwa (talk) 05:55, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population 

message: As I type this, the coordinates given are:
23 26 12.5 S 0 0 0 W
This is several years out of date, and I'll update it shortly. Can we make this live somehow? 
Ordinary Person (talk) 02:08, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I can think of a way to make this update automatically involving copying code from .  However, it would be easier to do it in decimal degrees rather than DMS as it currently is.  Is that ok?  --Lasunncty (talk) 10:03, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outdated number in lede, and undue precision 

message: The article suggests that that the name was based on the constellation in which the Sun was observed in ancient times at the winter solstice. While this is strictly true, it skips a major step in astronomic history, naming, and perpetuates a misunderstanding of the zodiac (the Greek name of a Babylonian invention). The Babylonian zodiac was always tropical, it divided the ecliptic into exactly twelve 30° signs from the Vernal Equinox (the Tropic of Aries, or more commonly, "the first point of Aries"). The signs were named by the Greeks based on the Greek constellations in roughly 300 BCE, give or take centuries. The tropics are named based on the tropical year, the path of the Sun through equinoxes and solstice. The latitudes are based on the two or four calculated tropical points. Those four points (and eight additional subdivisions) were named based on the constellations observed by the Greeks. The tropical divisions come from Babylonians, but the specific names are entirely Greek. The tropical vs sidereal confusion can be blamed on the Alexandrian Greeks (perpetuated by Ptolemy). But the Babylonian zodiac was always an equal division of the tropical year, irrespective of the largely irrelevant original names (found, I believe, in the Mul.Apin or Enuma Elish). 46.230.139.178 (talk) 10:48, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name (tropical not sidereal)