Time Lapse Sky Shows Earth Rotating Instead of Stars

Here is a minor edit to the excellent video by Stephane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado, posted at Nicolas Bustos channel. Visit http://eso.org for more about the European Southern Observatory.

Credits for original video:
ESO/José Francisco Salgado (http://www.josefrancisco.org)
ESO/S. Guisard (http://www.astrosurf.com/sguisard/)

The time-lapse starfield has been edited to show the rotation of the Earth from the point of view of the stars.

At http://youtu.be/wFpeM3fxJoQ is the original video by Guisard and Salgado.

At http://astrosurf.com/sguisard/ and http://josefrancisco.org/ are more pictures from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) located in the Atacama Desert, Chile.

Music: "Arcadia" available at http://incompetech.com, copyright by Kevin Macleod.

If you like this, you may like at http://pigmentleft.blogspot.com/ some intriguing and well-executed 2d and 3d art.

For anyone interested, at http://www.bulletpeople.com/?p=1805 you can read how this video was done.

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  Science & Technology

[Kakashi3280]

How about we have a top comment not about religion. Maybe bacon? I like bacon.

[razordu30]

I checked the comments for some, "Wow - this is really cool" type comments and found a religious debate. Lame, people. We should be talking about how awesome this video is. Ugh.

[Fusionscope]

Haha. Took you two years to come up with that?

[OTAZZENAZZ]

No. Only 10 and a half. But your mother said last night it's okay.

[OTAZZENAZZ]

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Noun

A thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, esp. a story with a funny punchline.

Verb

Make jokes; talk humorously or flippantly.

Synonyms

noun. jest - fun - jape - gag - trick - pleasantry - lark

verb. jest - jape - banter - lark - kid - josh

[Marie Ève]

C'est tout simplement magnifique! Et touchant en même temps! 

[TheEcdysone]

nothing more important than realizing that it is the earth which is moving and not the sun !

look at "the principle of emergence - part one" on U-tube !

[TwoBitColorPencil]

Watch this mute, plus /watch?v=kCSdz2hM_o4

[KuRai]

the universe isn't flat at all...

[Javier Asencio]

It's soooooooooo inspiring...

[Chuck Sailer]

Too lazy to read all the posts of how something like this turned into insulting religious people anyway.... This is a cool video. What is the trick to adjust the camera so that it remains in sync with the earth's rotation? Also, living in a big city, I forget how amazing the night sky is.