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Star trails above Anglo-Australian Observatory

author: Anglo-Australian Observatory/David Malin Images/Novapix

reference: o-sid01-00004

Image Size 300 DPI: 52 * 52 cm

As the earth rotates the stars appear to move across the sky, as do the more obvious sun and Moon This effect is easily recorded by leaving a camera outdoors with its shutter open during the night. To make this picture, the camera was pointed to the southwest, towards the dome of the AAT, from the UK Schmidt building on Siding Spring Mountain in New South Wales.

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1979 - AAO - AAT - ASTRONOMY - AUSTRALIA - DOME - LANDSCAPE - NIGHT - OBSERVATORY - POSTER - ROTATION - SIDING SPRING - SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE - STAR - STAR TRAILS - STARRY SKY -