Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Earth Rotating Under Very Large Telescopes

NASA ^ | June 01, 2011 | (see photo credit)

[SunkenCiv]

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[daku]

Beautiful

[scan59]

Kinda puts things into perspective.

[SatinDoll]

Awww....very nice. Thank you.

[Chode]

notice the LASER @ 37second mark and @ 114seconds, the first time it is definitely tracking something, prolly the moon

the second one, no idea

[Cyber Liberty]

I’m dizzy. Is that normal?

[DannyTN]

I knew someone was watching me.

[cripplecreek]

I really need to upgrade to tracking equipment for my camera.

[TheOldLady]

Spectacular, Civ. What a great idea they had to make the stars stand still so the earth’s movement showed instead. Really cool.

[bigheadfred]

What video? I guess it is gone.

[dr_lew]

Beautiful

I reserve this word for the personal experience of the night sky itself. Representations of it, no matter how interesting and educational, never approach this.

But yes, this is a very nice montage.

[TheOldLady]

Right here:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110601.html

[SunkenCiv]

It’s HTML 5, like the videos here on FR now are. I didn’t attempt to EMBED it, or even to link to it. I was a little disappointed that it wasn’t a usable pic as usual.

[bigheadfred]

Nah, it’s gone.

Benn pulled on a copywrong claim.

[DYngbld]

it is no longer available

[dr_lew]

I had just looked at it from this thread, then when I went back it was gone.

N.B. ... nicolas fabian bustos vargas

( No caps in notice at site. )

I searched the name, and all I got was a spanish version of the copyright claim. I ain’t gonna buy it from him, that’s for sure ... saw it already!

[dr_lew]

And furthermore, where does he come off copyrighting images of the VLT, operated by the ESO, which is credited in the blurb for the pulled video? Who let him up there? I get the feeling a little blowback may be coming his way.

[bigheadfred]

It’s all good. I didn’t just hang my head and wring my hands in futility.

I have five different links open in five tabs, watching it.

The thing about the world wide web is it’s world wide.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.

KMA fabian.

[Dryman]

Nasa says video pulled cause of copyright crapola. (when I checked the linky)