{"id":31990,"date":"2011-02-27T16:43:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T16:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/sidereal-motion-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-02-27T16:43:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T16:43:36","slug":"sidereal-motion-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/sidereal-motion-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Sidereal Motion | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I posted <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/02\/21\/time-lapse-the-spinning-chilean-sky\/\">a video<\/a> by Jos&eacute; Francisco Salgado showing the sky over telescopes in Chile. <\/p><p>He&rsquo;s just put up another one, this time showing the motion of the sky over several observatories: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/19617135\">\"Sidereal Motion\"<\/a>.<\/p><p>Sidereal motion is literally the movement of the stars; the apparent rising and setting caused by the rotation of the Earth. You don&rsquo;t notice it second-by-second as you watch the sky, but over minutes and hours the inevitability of our planet&rsquo;s angular momentum makes itself known. <\/p><p>Jos&eacute; also has <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/josefranciscosalgado\/sets\/72157624027341425\/\">breathtaking images of observatories<\/a> as well as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baileysalgadoproject.com\/\">a website<\/a> linking to his work. He has an artist&rsquo;s eye for the heavens, and his creations are truly lovely.<\/p><p> <em><\/em><\/p><p>Related posts:<\/p><p>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/01\/01\/happy-new-year-again\/\">Happy new year again!<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/12\/08\/amazing-wide-angle-time-lapse-night-sky-video\/\">Amazing wide-angle time lapse night sky video<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/12\/23\/tahoe-galaxy\/\">Tahoe galaxy<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/11\/01\/awesome-timelapse-video-rapture\/\">Awesome timelapse video: Rapture<\/a><\/p><p><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kXoiu6z5KfQzhcB-nbEN0KZ97tE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/26919_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kXoiu6z5KfQzhcB-nbEN0KZ97tE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/26919_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/26919_LmNjHlvUJHM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/26919_6EmqTlIxiW4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I posted a video by Jos&eacute; Francisco Salgado showing the sky over telescopes in Chile. He&rsquo;s just put up another one, this time showing the motion of the sky over several observatories: \"Sidereal Motion\".Sidereal motion is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/sidereal-motion-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}