Time Lapse Sky Shows Earth Rotating Instead of Stars (fixed audio)

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.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• earth
• rotation
• rotates
• rotating
• time lapse
• star
• starfield
• sky
• video

[bulletpeople]

Absolutely. That was my favorite part. I wish there were other time lapse video owners out there willing to allow this editing to be done to their work.

[biginjp]

We area tiny speck of dust in an infinite universe.

Go ahead and treat yourself today to an ice cream sundae, with nuts.

[goldielocksbear]

5 people think the Earth is flat

[KrayGeddie]

@biginjp Please don't say nuts... you are offending the conspiracy theorists haha

[TheSkepticSkwerl]

@Outpost38C the video is at "VLT" and the telescope there uses a sophisticated system that bends and morphs mirrors to match the distortion of the atmosphere, the laser acts as the guide for the system to know how the atmospher is warping the incoming image. if you have netflix watch "cosmos the beginners guide" it explains VLT in episode 3 or 4

[TheSkepticSkwerl]

@jdgrahamo i personally think if the sun rotated around the earth it would be more like the moon. they are different. we have obvious seasons, etc... if the sun rotated around the earth it would be way more random i believe, but who knows as gravitationally this is impossible, and will never happen.

[TheSkepticSkwerl]

I know that this is true, but this video doesnt prove the earth rotates, as the camera moves, the only "true" way to do this would be to have the hubble look at earth and show it spinning and hte back stars staying still. a camera on earth cant "prove" this

[bbsonjohn]

I hate living in Australia

[Apilfydnak]

@gotbing thats exacly what i thought while watching, still cool tho

[Hyland0r]

There's so much mystery out there, makes my life seem so pointless and small.

[w3st3y]

0:39 lazer beam lol