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Alun Jones

@coreyspowell One thing I love about this video is that you can use it to do some maths to figure out where this was filmed - you can't figure out what longitude, but you should be able to get a rough latitude, and even just a quick think makes it clear that this is in the Southern Hemisphere, looking South. The relatively low height of the apparent centre of rotation above the horizon says we're closer to the equator than the poles.

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Alun Jones

@coreyspowell OK, so I guess more information would actually be required to do any more maths than that, you'd need some idea of scale.

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ✅🚀🛰️

@ftp_alun @coreyspowell I guess I can be excused for thinking of the Australian Outback when I saw it. But following the link it says it's in Namibia. The latitude wasn't wrong. 😀 tivoli-astrofarm.de/en

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