Observation by Peter Tickner: From Plato to Copernicus

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Peter Tickner

Observer

Peter Tickner

Observed

2024 Oct 12 - 18:25

Uploaded

2024 Oct 18 - 01:55

Objects

The Moon

Equipment

Player One Uranus-C
0.5 reducer
Pixelteq 1010/38 nm band pass filter
14inch f/10 LX200ACF SCT
EQ8 mount

Location

Urban Berkshire

Target name

Mare Imbrium and craters Plato to Copernicus

Title

From Plato to Copernicus

About this image

An appropriate span across Mare Imbrium from Plato to Copernicus representing the two main opposing theories about the Earth and the Sun before modern times. Plato beleved in a geocentric universe with the Earth the centre of all things. Two hundred years later Aristarchus thought he had proved mathematically (and correctly!) that the Sun was at the centre of the solar system and even speculated that stars miight be other suns, but his views were considered eccentric and ignored for nearly 2,000 years, before Copernicus independently came to the same conclusion.

Peter

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c2024-10-12-1823_5-Moon_BAA 1010.jpg (2.7 MB)

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