This mind-bending timelapse with the Milky Way stabilized shows the Earth is spinning through space.

Credit: Eric Brummel
https://www.instagram.com/brummelphoto

#photography #milkyway #space

@wonderofscience can somebody show this to Kyrie?
@wonderofscience OMG.
Mesmerizing and beautiful!
@wonderofscience WOW! I would love to know how that was filmed. Drone perhaps? I mean you couldnโ€™t plant the camera on the ground right? Gawd I love science!
@wonderofscience I googled it and found a whole bunch of videos on how to use the special cameras that actually rotate real time with the rotation of (or counter rotation) the Earth! FASCINATING!

@Krayon @wonderofscience the camera is on an equatorial mount. Similar to whatโ€™s used to stabilize telescopes so they stay locked on a part of the sky.

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@wonderofscience I've watched this so many times it's eerily amazing that we're spinning like this and the magic of gravity keeps us standing in place. I love it๐Ÿ’—
@wonderofscience how is this done. I mean if I wanted to try do something like that where would I even start to look.

@boomatang @wonderofscience

You can add motors to telescopes so that they move to follow the position of a star, making the star appear static in the field of vision, either for a long exposure, or for keeping the target in sight, if you're showing a star to friends, young enthusiasts or members of the public.

https://www.go-astronomy.com/telescopes/telescope-drive-systems.htm

Telescope drive systems: GoTo drives, single axis drives, dual-axis drives

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Baron Munchausen was asked, "If the world is spinning, why don't people fall off?"

The Baron replied, "Zis is due to a kommon mizkonzeption: people are falling off all the time!"

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@wonderofscience OMG simultaneously inspiring awe and vertigo
@wonderofscience Wow! What a brilliant time-lapse video. Sometimes you just have to look at things slightly differently in order to appreciate what's really going on.
@wonderofscience I love this even though it is making me dizzy
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A sight to behold! Brings a lot into true perspective, doesn't it? Wonderful post.
@wonderofscience This always makes me wonder, ยซ Who the hell is out driving around Crater Lake in the middle of the night? ยป
@wonderofscience outstanding !! The music in the background gives me chills
@wonderofscience Still one of the best videos on the internet.
@wonderofscience thank goodness for gravity. Watching this had me clinging onto that hill.
@wonderofscience a humbling reminder that we are not the most fantastic thing in the universe
@wonderofscience So lovely! Thanks for sharing.
@wonderofscience this is weirdly trippy and so so cool
@wonderofscience Never seen something like that
@wonderofscience it would be super cool if someone did this at one of the poles on the winter solstice. That way they could make this do a full 360ยฐ rotation. The result might even be loopable.
@wonderofscience the minds of dozens of Flat Earthโ€™ers was just blown.