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Credit & Copyright: György Soponyai
Explanation:
Day and night on this little planet
look a lot like day and night on planet Earth.
In fact, the images used to construct the little planet projection,
a digitally warped and stitched mosaic covering 360x180 degrees, were
taken during day and night near Tarján, Hungary, planet Earth.
They span a successful
33-hour-long
photo experiment at July's
Hungarian Astronomical Association Astro Camp.
The time-series composite follows the solar disk in 20 minute
intervals from sunrise to sunset and over six hours of star trails
in the northern night sky centered on the
North Celestial Pole near bright star Polaris.
The orbiting
International
Space Station traced the offset arc
across the northern night.
Below the little planet's nightside horizon, red light lamps
of fellow astro-campers left the
night-long, dancing trails.
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