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Thursday, March 08, 2012
 
In time-lapse sunsets in Australia, shown on American TV, even in educational programs, the Sun always goes...
In time-lapse sunsets in Australia, shown on American TV, even in educational programs, the Sun always goes left-to-right, just like it does in US. What's up with that?

For a long time, I though that they simply take some random Northern Hemisphere sunset video from a random latitude and random time of year, and pretend it's from Australia. But yesterday, while watching "Million Dollar Moon Rock Heist" on National Geographic Channel, we saw it with Sydney Opera House on the foreground. What the hell? How do they even do it? Reflect video on purpose? Show Sunrise in reverse?

If there anything that pisses me off more than various scientific imprecisions in poetry, songs, and Japanese art, it's astronomical imprecision on TV.

Here is how it really looks like:
Sydney Harbour Bridge sunset Timelapse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqU5SS_rOQs

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