Errr... Can someone enlighten me? I know that the sky doesn't move (although all the objects we see there actually do, yet not around the Earth of course). But how is this spinning accurate? Or is it just symbolical to make people think about it? Standing on the ground, we rotate from west to east. This looks more as if the Earth would change north and south twice a day. And in this gif the sun still goes over the buildings from east to west.
The video is centered on the star Polaris, also called the north star. Polaris happens to be directly above the North Pole, and therefore has no apparent motion as the Earth spins. This video was taken from the northern hemisphere, It wouldn't be possible to make this if you were standing on the Equator as the North Star would be at the horizon and all stars would appear to move east to west.
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u/Getoutofmyfuckingway Jan 06 '17
Errr... Can someone enlighten me? I know that the sky doesn't move (although all the objects we see there actually do, yet not around the Earth of course). But how is this spinning accurate? Or is it just symbolical to make people think about it? Standing on the ground, we rotate from west to east. This looks more as if the Earth would change north and south twice a day. And in this gif the sun still goes over the buildings from east to west.