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The 2012 Galactic Alignment as seen by ISS -- Amazing!
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I hope you guys realize there is nothing remotely associated with a galactic alignment that you are actually going to be able to see on a camera orbiting the Earth, right? It would be like an ant trying to judge the alignment of an object in New York with an object in California. There is simply no meaningful frame of reference on a scale that large. And while we're on the subject of scale, it would take the light that would show you this event far longer than your lifetime to actually reach you. And the individual planets within our solar system are not supposed to be lining up in any meaningful way for this event. So I just don't understand what you expect to see on an IIS camera...
Quoting: CleverMoniker 19931300 The camera was not Earth facing, it was directed towards the Sun. Where in my post did I suggest that I thought the camera was earth facing? I am obviously aware of the fact that it's pointed at the sun, since I observed that what you're seeing is flares resulting from the camera being pointed *at the sun*. My points all stand. It is physically impossible for you to observe a galactic alignment from Earth's vantage point. Look at it this way. In an alignment between points A and B, (A being the center of the galaxy and B being us), if you can't see A, you can't see an alignment. And as I've stated, there were no planetary alignments scheduled or observed, during this event. So I don't know what you think you're seeing in that video, but I can assure you, it has nothing to do whatsoever with any 'alignments' beyond sunlight 'aligning' with a camera lens.
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