{"id":39948,"date":"2011-10-02T14:47:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T14:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/time-lapse-the-wagging-pole-%e2%80%93-night-watch-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-10-02T14:47:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T14:47:36","slug":"time-lapse-the-wagging-pole-%e2%80%93-night-watch-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/time-lapse-the-wagging-pole-%e2%80%93-night-watch-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Time lapse: The Wagging Pole \u2013 Night Watch | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Gaunt is a photographer who sent me this time lapse video he made of the skies over Cornwall, UK. It&rsquo;s not remarkable so much for the photography &mdash; which is quite lovely &mdash; but because in the extreme southwest UK summer nights, according to Graham, tend to be cloudy.<\/p><p>I like the shots of the stars through the clouds; the difference in relative motion is somehow both eerie and soothing. The familiar sight of Orion, the Pleiades, Taurus, and Sirius coming in at about 1:20 is quite nice.<\/p><p>The thing is&hellip; \"Wagging Pole\"? I asked Graham what it means. At about a minute in, keep your eyes on the third power line pole down the road. It moves, wagging around! He said it was in a loose hole, but when he first saw it it freaked him out a little, so he decided to give it title billing.<\/p><hr width=\"30%\" align=\"left\"><em><p>Related posts:<\/p><p>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/09\/28\/stunning-finnish-aurora-time-lapse\/\">Stunning Finnish aurora time lapse<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/08\/29\/wyoming-skies\/\">Wyoming skies<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/08\/23\/another-jaw-dropping-time-lapse-video-tempest\/\">Another jaw-dropping time lapse video: Tempest<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/07\/23\/time-lapse-journey-through-canyons\/\">Time lapse: Journey Through Canyons<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/07\/05\/down-under-milky-way-time-lapse\/\">Down under Milky Way time lapse<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/06\/23\/alps-lapse\/\">Alps lapse<\/a><\/p><p><\/p><\/em><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LBA0t-L3Unr_myPYeibwdlI4js4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/eb1bb_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LBA0t-L3Unr_myPYeibwdlI4js4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/eb1bb_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\/eb1bb_nOESMGNA34w\" 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\/4b2d7_52JWqHDNm5E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Gaunt is a photographer who sent me this time lapse video he made of the skies over Cornwall, UK. It&rsquo;s not remarkable so much for the photography &mdash; which is quite lovely &mdash; but because in the extreme southwest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/time-lapse-the-wagging-pole-%e2%80%93-night-watch-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-39948","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\/39948"}],"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=39948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}