Monday, 30 May 2011

I begin to see the sky move under my ft Bad Astronomy

My passion for time lapse evening sky shots is on record (see Related Posts below), and that i was ready to show you this simply stunning video that s been making the net models yesteryear day or two, showing heaven circling across the Large Telescope observatory in Chile

however I discovered that Youtube user bulletpeople required that video and altered it just a little. He transformed the purpose of notice a teensy bit, only a scosh, to ensure that rather than heaven getting around us inside a geocentric fashion, our planet rotates underneath the sky:

[Set the resolution to 720p making it full screen for top effect.]

How awesome is the fact that I won t say this frame of reference is much more real than our usual everyday geocentric one*, because no frame is much more real than every other. However it does provide you with some cosmic perspective, doesn t it

Do not ever forget: we survive a moved spinning ball turning around a star that s revolving about the middle of the Milky Way universe that s about the borders from the Virgo universe cluster that s area of the Local Supercluster that s within an growing World that does not only will get bigger every second but will get bigger faster every second.

That s a great deal to handle, I understand however it s real, also it s true, also it s awesome.

Tip o the lens cap to PopSci for that original video, and Scottie Davis for that edited one. Original video credit: St�phane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado/ESO.


* To not be mistaken with a capital-G Geocentric one.


Related posts:

- Incredibly, impossibly beautiful time lapse video
- Australian Outback time lapse
- Dust, in the desert below towards the universe above
- Stunning winter sky timelapse video: Sub Zero
- OK, because I love y all: bonus aurora timelapse video
- Sidereal Motion
- Amazing wide-position time lapse evening sky video
- AWESOME timelapse video: Rapture

May 30th, 2011 10:00 AM Tags: geocentrism, time lapse, VLT
by Phil Plait in Astronomy, Bit of mind, Science 7 comments Feed Trackback >



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