Southern Star Trail Rotation

• camera or phone capable of a long-exposure or stacked night-sky shot
• tripod
• clear southern sky
• location in the Southern Hemisphere or a trusted southern-sky time-lapse dataset

1. Aim the camera toward the southern sky and record a long exposure or stacked time-lapse.
2. Keep the camera fixed so the stars draw trails instead of being tracked.
3. Look for whether the trails bend around a stable southern rotation center rather than around Polaris.

This visual shows the core geometry the experiment is testing before the real-world observation is made.

• The trails arc around a southern point in the sky instead of around Polaris.
• The rotation direction is opposite the familiar northern-sky view.
• The center shifts in height with southern latitude in the expected way.

That hemisphere-dependent sky rotation is a direct globe prediction and a major problem for a one-dome flat-Earth sky story.

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