how can you see the earth rotate with a camera?

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I’ll make it simple, I’ve been seeing a lot of videos where a person sets their camera on its side and it captures the earth rotating. shouldn’t this be impossible with the way we are on the earth?

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The videos are captured with a camera on [equatorial mount for telescope.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_mount) The mount has a clock drive to keep the scope pointed at a single spot in the sky regardless of the earth’s rotation.

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