I see the sky move under my feet

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
May 30, 2011 7:00 PMNov 20, 2019 12:28 AM

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[UPDATE: Just FYI, I changed the links below to a new version of the video with better audio.] My love of time lapse night sky shots is on record (see Related Posts below), and I was all set to point you to this simply stunning video that's been making the web rounds the past couple of days, showing the sky circling above the Very Large Telescope observatory in Chile... ... but then I found out that Youtube user bulletpeople took that video and manipulated it a little. He changed the point of view a teensy bit, just a scosh, so that instead of the sky moving around us in a geocentric fashion, the Earth rotates under the sky:

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