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Hurricane Milton from Dragon Endeavor photo taken by Astronaut Matthew Dominick (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you saying that observing the Earth should count as astronomy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Technically correct. The best kind of correct.