Hurricane Milton from Dragon Endeavor photo taken by Astronaut Matthew Dominick
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to astronomy@mander.xyz on 08 Oct 2024 19:41
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threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works on 09 Oct 2024 06:09 collapse

Super cool photo, but does this technically count as astronomy? Isn’t astronomy “a camera on (usually) on earth, pointed up into space”, not the other way around?

acockworkorange@mander.xyz on 12 Oct 2024 05:21 collapse

astronomy
/ə-strŏn′ə-mē/
noun
  1. (obsolete) Astrology.
  2. The science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena.
  3. A treatise on, or text-book of, the science.

From the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works on 12 Oct 2024 06:41 collapse

Are you saying that observing the Earth should count as astronomy?

acockworkorange@mander.xyz on 12 Oct 2024 17:57 collapse

Technically correct. The best kind of correct.