File:The Ride of a Lifetime

Software used to make this video is free, its called Celestia, available www.shatters.net/celestia/ Its really worth downloading and having a play with if you want to get to grips in a fantastic fashion with the solar system and universe. Its a great piece of software for getting to understand where you are on the planet, in the solar system, and in the galaxy- a very eye opening piece of code. It also allows you to find various planets, moons, and man-made satallites. It is also quasi-research in nature, in that you can actually give the program scripts and make it do some quite sophisticated stuff.

Since I was a kid Ive been a keen amateur astronomer, and have always marveled at watching the sky move, but in my mind feeling the Earth move. Day and night, the stars and the planets are something we have all seen, but relatively few actually perceive what is going on- a tragedy given that people can live their whole lives in the presence of this knowledge and not see its effects in their daily lives. The spin of the earth, the movement of the planets and why they have their apparent motions etc. This video is an attempt to highlight this perception.

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