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Solar System Rising Over Fire Island
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by
[z]Barbara Harris
@
04.05.2005 00:00
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Solar System Rising Over Fire Island
Explanation:
If you wait long enough, the entire Solar System will rise before you.
To see such a sight, however, you will need to look in the direction of the
ecliptic
.
All of the
planets
and their moons orbit the Sun in nearly the same plane, the
ecliptic plane
.
From the
Earth
, this means that each day they will all rise in nearly the same direction - and later set in the opposite direction.
Ten years ago, a series of time exposures caught, left to right, the
Sun
,
Venus
, the
Moon
, and
Jupiter
, all rising in the
ecliptic plane
behind
Fire Island
,
New York
,
USA
.
Exposures were taken every six minutes and
digitally superposed on an image taken from the same location at sunrise.
Smaller members
of our
Solar System
, including most
comets
and many
asteroids
, do not always move along the
ecliptic plane
.
The picturesque
Fire Island Lighthouse
, visible in the foreground,
was built in 1826 and is still in use today.
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