Astronomy Picture of the Day - Little Planet Astro Camp

NASA ^ | 09/02/2016 | (see photo credits)

[ThomasMore]

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2016 September 2

Little Planet Astro Camp
Image Credit & Copyright: György Soponyai

Explanation: Day and night on this little planet look a lot like day and night on planet Earth. In fact, the images used to construct the little planet projection, a digitally warped and stitched mosaic covering 360x180 degrees, were taken during day and night near Tarján, Hungary, planet Earth. They span a successful 33-hour-long photo experiment at July's Hungarian Astronomical Association Astro Camp. The time-series composite follows the solar disk in 20 minute intervals from sunrise to sunset and over six hours of star trails in the northern night sky centered on the North Celestial Pole near bright star Polaris. The orbiting International Space Station traced the offset arc across the northern night. Below the little planet's nightside horizon, red light lamps of fellow astro-campers left the night-long, dancing trails.

[ThomasMore]

Other than being an unusual photo... sort of uninteresting and little to do with astronomy. It's sort of a stitched together persona of planet earth. You know, like Hillary Clinton; a stitched together persona of surreal imagination but not an ounce of truth.

[ThomasMore]

APOD PING !!!

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[Slip18]

I would love to be put on your ping list. I am not an astronomer nor anything close, but the images fascinate me!

I do follow Georgio A. Tsoukakas, which might be a plus or a minus. LOL!

Thank you for these beautiful images!

[ThomasMore]

You are now on the APOD list!

[ThomasMore]

Giorgio A. Tsoukalos

[Buckeye McFrog]

[Red Badger]

[ETL]

Other than being an unusual photo... sort of uninteresting and little to do with astronomy.

It's interesting because it illustrates how the night sky appears to (nearly) revolve around the star Polaris, aka the North Star, as the Earth spins on its rotational axis.

[Daffynition]

[jmacusa]

This dude is an alien. He’s hiding in plain sight.

[Slip18]

Thank you so much!