threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
on 09 Oct 2024 06:09
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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
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astronomy
/ə-strŏn′ə-mē/
noun
(obsolete) Astrology.
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.
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
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Are you saying that observing the Earth should count as astronomy?
acockworkorange@mander.xyz
on 12 Oct 2024 17:57
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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?
astronomy
/ə-strŏn′ə-mē/
noun
From the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
Are you saying that observing the Earth should count as astronomy?
Technically correct. The best kind of correct.