I don't have unlimited resources. This is the best I've got to help explain this to you.
How do you know the stars are farther away?
How do you know the stars are farther away?
The focal lengths of the mirrors used on astronomical telescopes are incredibly long. Planetary telescopes have shorter focal lengths. You can't use an astronomical telescope such as the Hubble Space Telescope to see the planets sharply because of the differences in their focal length requirements. Conversely, planetary telescopes can't sharply resolve distant stars because their focal length is too short and the images become fuzzy from being out of focus. That alone is proof that the stars are very far away compared to the planets. This can be measured and the mirrors certainly are made with that in mind.
Also, the light from distant stars arrives at Earth as parallel rays of light due to any photons not on axis to the Earth would diverge off at angles that would not illuminate the Earth. This is why stars 'twinkle' with atmospheric disturbance and planets do not. Planets and any other nearby celestial objects including the Sun do not have parallel rays of light because their 'disk' is relatively large in our field of view and more off-axis photons can reach us. This is why you don't get ultra-sharp shadows from sunlight in normal conditions but you can during solar eclipses. How does the FE psyop explain that, hmm?
Ok so your only proof is from Hubble? Those cgi images supposedly from space?
Do you have any proof (from here on Earth) that gives the distance of the stars from the Earth?
'Twinkling stars' does not prove how far away they are.
Ok so your only proof is from Hubble?
Do you have any proof (from here on Earth) that gives the distance of the stars from the Earth?
The Keck I and II observatories, the Very Large Telescope, The Hale Telescopes, the Lowell Discovery Telescope (actually here's a for you) all can demonstrate this too. Many of these optical telescopes use adaptive optics to counteract the atmospheric distortion that bends the parallel rays of light from the stars. That wouldn't be needed if the light wasn't parallel as it is. And since you'll just counter me with the 'CGI' argument, the early Hale Telescopes (there were several) were all optical direct observation telescopes. Actual people had to look through the objective lens to see distant objects. They were built and used prior to the development of computers so there was no way to use CGI to 'fake' things. In 1949, Edwin Hubble used the later built 200-inch Hale Telescope to observe , also known as Hubble's Variable Nebula, which is approximately 2500 light years away. That's a hell of a long way from Earth, wouldn't you say? Did CGI exist in 1949?
So now it's your turn. How does perspective work on an object like NGC 2261 that is 2500 light years away? It's 8 degrees, 45 minutes above the equatorial plane and not obscured by anything at all on clear night. Show me how big the 'dome' is to make that work with your 'perspective' answer. And BTW, how do you know the 'dome' really exists? Got any pictures of it that aren't just drawings or CGI? Got any accurate distance measurements for it? For all we know, the 'dome' is just CGI since that's all I've ever seen of it.
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