Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' depicts the sky on July 22, 1889

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Which luminant objects are real and which are artistic license?

Would not plate solving with each choice give different results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrometric_solving

No guessing needed for Escher's stars. He had a love for astronomy that shows up in some of his works.

https://escherinhetpaleis.nl/en/about-escher/escher-today/ye...

https://escherinhetpaleis.nl/en/about-escher/escher-today/th...

These Escher pages don't scroll and are generally unusable. Is that some Chrome-only garbage?

Cannot confirm because I am on Chrome. But it would be so sad if that website is Chrome only. I doubt it though.

Can other browser users chime in.

Works on mobile Safari for me. I’ve seen that scrolling issues are often caused by adblockers hiding cookie prompts, that need to be accepted to interact with the webpage.

Works on latest desktop Safari, macOS 26.7.1 on M5 MBP.

I've watched enough History channel to know that any random assorted of objects could be linked to some pattern of planets and stars still this is convincing.

this search will never stop, scanning technology will improve enough to give files that show each bristle in each brush stroke in all the layers of paint, and then (sorry again vincent) dig him up and scan his bones, and then recreate his every movement, something like what is bieng done with the hurculaium scrolls, but as an act of pennance and acknowlegement of , if intelligence ,focus, training, and practice are so great, then what about this

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