Posted on 12/02/2023 12:45:25 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: You can take a subway ride to visit this observatory in Beijing, China but you won't find any telescopes there. Starting in the 1400s astronomers erected devices at the Beijing Ancient Observatory site to enable them to accurately measure and track the positions of naked-eye stars and planets. Some of the large, ornate astronomical instruments are still standing. You can even see stars from the star observation platform today, but now only the very brightest celestial beacons are visible against the city lights. In this time series of exposures from a camera fixed to a tripod to record graceful arcing startrails, the brightest trail is actually the Moon. Its broad arc is seen behind the ancient observatory's brass armillary sphere. Compare this picture from the Beijing Ancient Observatory taken in September 2023 to one taken in 1895.
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I’ve been there.
Should have been Biden, 0bama communist/jihad death cult ping.
Explanation: Oh, how I hate the suck up to the murderous Chinese communists and the murderous Muslim jihadis that is being pushed by our leftist government (started by 0bama) and paid for by my taxes. I considered not posting, but thought I would post their propaganda with my commentary. Sorry for the rant.
Thanks...need rants
I encourage rants. I enjoy reading them.
Our modern geopolitical landscape is nothing like what it was hundreds, even thousands of years ago. The different countries and continents even, all had their own theories of what the heavens were all about. Each had their own mythologies which were quite fascinating.
Thanks to modern politics, those rich fascinating histories are being swallowed up by lusts for greed and power, and we are poorer for it.
A fine building, which is essentially a podium for the instruments, which were designed by Flemish Jesuit missionary Ferdinand Verbiest. The whole complex is one of the treasures of Chinese history.
Nothing to do with the present day regime. It should be appreciated for what it is, and for those who created it.
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