So what *is* the right way up for a moon or planet?
Google adds planets and moons to Maps, but puts bits in the wrong places
Can't tell the difference between a photo of your partner and one of your pet? Good news, Google can now automatically sort photos of animals from pics of people. In this pun-peppered post (“oppawtunity”? “pawesome movie”? Save us) explains that instead of asking Google Photos for “dog” or “cat”, the software will now do the …
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Tuesday 17th October 2017 10:44 GMT Cuddles
"Astronomic telescopes traditionally have inverted images as you don't want to lose light/quality from having an extra lens just to flip the image to be "the right way round"."
This is why many telescopes are in the southern hemisphere - since everything is already upside-down the images come out the right way up.
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Tuesday 17th October 2017 15:12 GMT Loyal Commenter
North is up
...but which North? Local North? Magnetic North? Solar North? North relative to the plane of the ecliptic? Galactic North?
Personally, I'd probably define it as parallel to the axis of rotation of the body, in whichever direction happens to be pointing in roughly the same direction as ecliptic north, but I don't know how well that will work for bodies that are noticeably titled relative to the ecliptic.
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Tuesday 17th October 2017 19:08 GMT bombastic bob
normally it would be north up, where "north" is defined by the ecliptic plane and what 'north' would be on earth in relation to it. or something like that, with the planets all revolving in roughly the same direction around the sun, and rotating in roughly the same manner [with notable exceptions]. Assuming they all "follow the standard" north would be up, and planetary rotation would be west to east, in whatever photo they show, even for exoplanets [ok no photos of THOSE yet but still...]
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Tuesday 17th October 2017 09:44 GMT Tigra 07
Bugger
Shit. This is gonna be terrible. People will be getting stranded on the wrong planets, miles from their destinations.
You book a holiday in Spain, set off to drive across Europe with your Satnav, and before you know it - BOOM. You're lost, miles from Earth and stranded on Barcelona, Jupiter, miles from your hotel.
Google, sort your shit out. People's lives are at stake!
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Tuesday 17th October 2017 12:40 GMT James O'Shea
Re: Bugger
You don't want to send Zuck or Leisure Suit Larry to Mars, the locals might take that kind of thing as an act of war, and rightly so. I've seen movies indicating that riling up the locals might not be a very good idea.
Send 'em off to one of the planets of Betelgeuse, assuming there are any. Better yet, send them to go find out if there are any planets in that system. It'll take a long time for them to get there, and even more time for the locals to send a response. (Betelgeuse is a red supergiant, so there probably aren't any _surviving_ planets; this makes it an excellent choice to send those two off to. Besides, it's expected to go supernova Real Soon Now as astronomers measure time, making it an even better choice to send 'em to. I think I'll start a Kickstarter to fund this worthy mission.)
<exits, singing Queen's '39.>
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