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by bscphil
733 days ago
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It's just a projection, you're looking at the sphere of the sky as seen from a (stabilized) Earth position. When you zoom out, you increase your field of view beyond that of the human eye to encompass the whole sphere. Because there's no way to compress a sphere into a plane, you have to choose a projection; this is a common projection (stereographic) which lets you zoom out as far as 180 degrees, by presenting the field of view as if it were the surface of a sphere as seen from an infinite distance. |
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