What
would it be like to see the sky around the world at the same moment
in time? While it is not possible to experience this directly,
live webcams stationed across the globe do permit a form
of simultaneous sight. To capture and synthesize this information,
I utilized 52 webcams around the world that include the sky
and took screenshot images of them at noon and midnight (Eastern
Standard Time), on October 4, 2004. All but the sky is removed
from each image and they are arranged in order of their longitudinal
location, starting with Columbus, Ohio (82° 59' W), proceeding
eastward to Orlando, Florida (81° 22'
W), to Ottawa, Canada (75° 43' W), etc., until ending at Cincinnati,
Ohio (84° 30' W).
The
sky images are printed out as a ten-foot long panorama, with
those taken at noon placed at the top and those taken at midnight
inverted and placed at the bottom.
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