Stabilized camera to show that the earth's rotation

Mar 10, 2025 3:32 PM

DOcelot1

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interesting

All of this vast beauty, in an infinite universe and we have to worry about rent and shit...

2 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Where's the original video? The compression is fucking killing me.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ooh, it's Cornwall, next door.. Cream first bey.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Fun

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

This is brilliant.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Neat!

2 years ago | Likes 49 Dislikes 2

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

0:28-0:29 that one lifted truck with beams bright enough to burn the sun.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This gives me such a feeling of peace and calm knowing where my place is in the universe.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And that my liege is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped.

2 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Banana earth is a theory I could get behind. Makes more sense than a flat earth.

2 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Love these, but he should go to where there's little light pollution.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Anyone else see the Cheshire Cat in the one over the castle?

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Awesome footage

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I really jive with the music playing over the video. Anyone have any idea where it might have originated? I assume it's probably one of the many royalty free producers out there, but it would sure be nice to know which one!

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Whoa! It almost looks like the Earth is a spheroid!!! 😲

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Don't you find it far, far more likely the heavens spin around us? /s

2 years ago | Likes 135 Dislikes 5

I saw a comment the other day by someone rejecting that fact that our solar system is heliocentric. That was a new one to me.

2 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I don't believe in "someone". The "mainstream senses" want you to believe things exist, but I don't trust 'em. They're all in the pocket of Big Pragmatism working to sell you imaginary pieces of their fake reality so they can control your thoughts, when really it's all just the imagination of a chemical storm and they're figments of the dream just like individuality itself.

You're not real. You're me. We're all everything everywhere and we don't exist.
What wakes when the dream ends?

2 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Very much "Everything Everywhere All At Once" vibes.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yes

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Wow!!! So beautiful!!!

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Everyone can see the world if flat, carried on the back of a Giant Turtle that has four elephants to carry the flat disc. As this image that I hacked from NASA's ultra-secret files, at huge personal risk, shows:

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

we all know the earth rotates... as an american......no...no they dont.....

2 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 3

Is that St Michael’s Mount?

2 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 1

Looks like St Michael's Mount of Cornwall, in England. Not the one in France.

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Very much looks like it, yes.

2 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

I used to service the fire alarms on st Michael's Mount. Lovely place.

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

That's really cool!

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It could still be just a big tilting disk! /s

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

Wow

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself." - Carl Sagan

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

So heliocentrism is plausible.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Took me more time I dare to admit to understand what is going on here. Then I realized the stabilization was done by taking references points in the sky and make them fixed so the relative movement is transferred to the rest of the image.

2 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Actually it's not a software stabilization, it's a "mechanical stabilisation" : a motorized mount that compensate the earth rotation, so the camera is fixed relative to the sky so we see the landscape move (because the camera move relative to it). We, as humans, are the other way around : we are fixed on earth and we see the objects in the sky move, but it's only an apparent motion.

2 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Yeah I thought clouds don't actually move, it's just the earth that moves so it gives us the impression that it's the clouds moving from our perspective. Yet in that video the clouds are kinda moving in a different direction to the earth from the point the camera is stabilized. My brain is confused, maybe I'll understand it when I wakeup tomorrow.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thankyou for explaining

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's called an equatorial mount and it is used in astrophotography. It makes one full rotation in 23h56min an 4,1s, exactly opposed to the rotation of the earth relative to the stars.

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Such thing exists but they are quite bulky. @OP did you used mechanical stabilization or after after the fact software?

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You can see in the video at the start, that the camera is attached to what appears to be a iOptron Skytracker Pro mount, they are small and affordable compared to a full telescope mount, but can't hold much weight. The mount is aligned with the earths rotational axis and a small ball mount allows the camera to point in the direction that you want to capture, that way you don't get star trails like you would with digital tracking.

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I stand corrected. Thanks :-)

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

you can see earth rotation by zooming to the moon too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdEYX024FOo

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

So you locked camera on the skies? That's how rotations were shown?

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Or you could do it after the fact by stabilising the video off a star.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Kinda. OP uses an "equatorial mount". By orienting it correctly, it compensates for the rotation of the earth by rotating in the opposite direction at the same speed as the earth rotates. End result: stars stand still.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why isn't the water sloshing from side to side then??? -Flat Earther

2 years ago | Likes 323 Dislikes 8

Didn't you just describe the tide? Because when it is in on one side of the ocean, it is out on the other side.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

2 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

With some large scale earth works, I'm sure we can get you some sloshing water

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Or I could just show your mom my meme collection

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"What you're seeing is not the earth rotating but the crystal dome moving as proved in the holy word of God Genesis 1:7. Checkmate ball-earth believers."

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"It is, that's what the tides are about" - troll targeting flat-earthers.

2 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 0

"Tide goes in, tide goes out, you can't explain that."

2 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

funny enough. The earth actually runs into the tide when it rotates.

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0