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Because of the accuracy with which this spherical picture was made it would also be possible to take a transparent plastic 20-foot globe of the Earth with the latitude-longitude grid and the continents and islands outlined, together with the marker points identifying the respective positions of the satellite-mounted telescope cameras at the time of the photographing, and to position the 20-foot Earth globe within the 200-foot celestial sphere globe within the miniature Earth’s spherical center congruent with the spherical center of the 200-foot celestial sphere.
It is then possible to orient the miniature 20-foot diameter Earth globe so that its polar axis is pointed toward the North Star, making a small correction to correspond with the astronomical correction for the small aberration well-known to exist in this respect, which is negligible in this description of the properties of our triangular geodesics transformational projection. We may then rotate the miniature Earth 20-foot globe around its axis until a sighting from its exact center will register each of the stars of the 200-foot celestial sphere which the satellites photographed in exact verticality outward from Earth.
