Their deductions tallied perfectly with mine--the torpedo must start upon its journey toward Mars some time before the red planet rose above the eastern horizon.
What we had observed was that a large number of future great physicians were born when the planets Mars and Saturn had just risen or culminated in the sky.
As the planet rises in the near distance, the ship splits along ideological lines, with each faction boarding a separate landing pod to the planet's surface.
"Proclaim yourself King of Tanith and then lay claim to the throne of Gram and the whole planet would rise for you."
The invading planet rose each night a degree or more larger.
The answers to the other questions - why the sky was red, what planet rose over what house, how Leonardo got that effect - satisfy our curiosity about the literal truth.
Westward, where no planet should rise, the triple verticals of Trinity Bay (we keep still to the Southern route) make a low-lifting haze.
The two planets were rising in the east.
That we see planets and stars rising and setting proved nothing since they could be relative motions.
We try to save humanity from itself by removing these fearful armaments of Terror, and half the planet rises against us in a paroxysm of fear!