Originally posted by FreakyKBH
Your twisting of words notwithstanding, to the specific question of whether one can confidently determine the sky in the time lapse videos, the answer was/is no: it is not possible to determine one way or another what the moon is passing through.
Took you a while to admit that didn't it?
It is assumed that the moon was on its path through the sky, since most people only have ever seen the moon in the sky.
It was also assumed that your claim of an elephant doing the same thing as the moon actually had legs, too, but that didn't work out so well, either.
Au contraire, it worked out perfectly. You were completely stumped and tried to run away. Only my goading you has got you to answer the sky question, and I bet you'll spend another few pages denying the implications.
Funny how you repeat the lie that I claimed the elephant did the same thing as the moon then each time you are called on it admit that I did not, then forget again by the next post.
So far we have established some incontrovertible facts:
1. Whether an object appears to rotate depends in part on the camera.
2. We don't know what the camera was doing in the timelapse in question, so cannot determine the cause of the apparent rotation.
Therefore any claim that such rotation is a property of the moon is unfounded. Further, we would actually expect some rotation to appear in the ground based timelapse that is different from what would be expected in a timelapse from a different vantage point.