I've been spending a lot of time watching timelapse videos online the last few days. They're incredibly beautiful and very relaxing to watch... especially when it's stupidly cloudy outside!
So a few days ago I came across this one, which is still beautiful, but technically very interesting and cool.
When you're watching a regular timelapse of the stars, it appears as though the stars are moving across the field of view. Obviously this effect is due to the rotation of the earth on it's axis, and so it is the earth moving and not the sky!
This timelapse takes this concept and turns it on it's head, literally, and shows the earth rotating instead of the stars. And it makes for a very beautiful video.
It was filmed at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, which is, surprise surprise, in the Southern Hemisphere, so you can see the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds in the video! Really lovely!
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