Posted on 06/19/2026 10:25:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Does this scene look familiar? It is a modern recreation of the famous painting Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh. Both the image and the painting depict a tall tree on the left, a crescent moon on the upper right, the planet Venus just to the right of the tree, a foreground horizon rising from left to right, and clouds above the horizon. Differences include that the photograph was taken in mid-April earlier this year in Cascavel, Brazil, while the painting was composed in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in 1889. The original Starry Night is considered by many to be one of the three most famous paintings in the world today and a statement about the wonders of the night sky. Today is (roughly) the anniversary of the morning that van Gogh saw the sky that he later painted in his version of Starry Night.
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Thank you for showing Uranus.
I don’t see Uranus in that pic.
Clever.
That picture is upside down.
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Uranus is on the top. :)
There’s no top or bottom in Space...
Wow.
Cool.
Seems like the Moon and Venus would be on a closer plane
It was winking...
Not sure I want to see NEanus. Heh.
Earth’s rotation is 23 degrees off from the solar system orbital plane. That is what gives us six months of warm weather in the northern hemisphere and then the next six months is warm weather in the southern hemisphere. And the moon does not orbit in the plane of the solar system or of the Earth’s rotation, The mean inclination of the Moon’s orbit to the ecliptic plane of Earth is about 5.145 degrees. But this inclination varies over an 18.6-year cycle, reaching a maximum of approximately 28.6 degrees in one direction and a minimum of about 18.3 degrees in the other direction relative to the Earth’s equator.
Love the painting and the song by Don McLean just as much....
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