Anyone know if this is not just some urban legend…I say urban legend which is why I am sure it will be on What's Hot soon….
Pretty sure this image is wrong on many levels.. but I am looking to all the people that know more about Astronomy than I do to give some real answers…would be a great photo op if it were true….
Planetary alignment that will take place Dec 3, 2012 is dead-on alignment with the Pyramids at Giza. Night Sky in Giza, Egypt on December 3, 2012, local time … one hour before sunrise compared with the Pyramids at Giza.
Planets inline: Mercury / Venus / Saturn
Image generated by Starry Night Pro
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See +Joltrast .'s post.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/106225487969011886893/posts/1khg5t8hMpr
probably a UL but I shared with my science folks to check
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?p=1655072
I am pretty sure the last time I saw images of the pyramids lately the smog was so bad you could barely see them.. let alone the stars….. which is a sad state of affairs in itself…
Hmmmm doesn't seem possible according to Google Sky Maps
+Kirk Flowers I read that.. it is less that a full answer… I wonder if this alignment is even somewhat close… … coolest thing I have seen done with the pyramids is this: http://youtu.be/-FZXdWZK4Dc
Brent, Outstanding capture, wonderful shot!
I'm going to put my aluminum hat on now… one can never be too early for such events.
Also, I'm glad that digital cameras have improved since this shot was taken. I loath ISO grain.
Also, is this HDR by chance?
+Barry Blanchard see that made me laugh… not quite as much as the one right before yours thou…
+Brent Burzycki it made it hard to type mine out as I saw it while pounding keys. 😀
Pretty impressive for a camera 2737 years ago though…. Not so impressive if the person time traveled to the future to shoot this and didn't bother to bring a better camera.
+elizabeth hahn I guess "the good old days" were better than we thought.
🙂 +Barry Blanchard
I am all for time travel… oh the crap I could stir up…
holy shit.
they had camera's 2,737 years ago!?
lol, of course +mel peifer and they were made out of lincoln logs
One word people……. ALIENS…..they built the pyramids
Of course they did. I've seen Stargate.
I've never been to the Pyramids of Giza, so I can't exactly say how the night sky looks in any particular region. What could be done is punch in the latitude and longitude of the pyramids into Stellarium, which would give a rough estimate if this falls squarely into Urban Legend territory or not.
Yup, that's what I did with Sky Maps, including time traveling to the date and time they specified.