Gaspard: We know enough about the rotation of the earth to compensate for it when we're taking long exposure photos. Gaspard: The stars make one complete loop, whereas the sun makes one complete loop in 24 hours. So yeah, so we got smart people figuring all that out. But you know what my iPhone does today is I want to take a long exposure. It doesn't say hold it really steady. Well, I can do this. No, it takes multiple exposures, multiple short exposures. And then in software, when the exposure is done, it registers the light in that image, stacks them, adds them, and that's my final photo. That's another
How do we discover more exoplanets? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Matt Kirshen explore telescopes, exoplanets, and more with professor of astrophysics and Principal Investigator of HATNet Exoplanet Survey, Gáspár Bakos.
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