[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:
[embed width="610"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkn2ZXWDl6k[/embed]
[Set the resolution to 720p and make it full screen for the best effect.] How cool is that? I won't say this frame of reference is more real than our ...
