Recorded live on the Galactic Tick Day at the Galactic Tick Festival, 9 September 2023 Timișoara
Spanning the whole galaxy, moving at 828,000 km/h around the supermassive black hole at its center, Galactic Tick Day celebrates our progress around the Milky Way. It is the first holiday designed to raise awareness about the fascinating movement of the Solar System around our galaxy.
The time needed for our solar system to move around the galactic center is roughly 225 million years. Galactic Tick Day occurs on a regular interval of 1.7361 years, called a Galactic Tick, and it represents 1/129,600,000 (one centi-arcsecond) of our solar system’s orbit around that black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
Most people have a good sense of the motion of our solar system because it is a fundamental part of our lives. The rotation of the Earth makes for day and night; our planet’s revolution around the sun marks a year. But fewer Earthlings grasp the larger picture — that our solar system is just one among billion others, orbiting a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. And where the sun goes, we go too.
The first Galactic Tick Day took place one galactic tick after Hans Lippershey filed the patent for the telescope on 2 October 1608. The first observance of the holiday was on 29 September 2016, the 235th Galactic Tick Day.
This is also the day Thy Veils joined the celebration.
lyrics
I am less of myself
And more of the Sun
All is in motion
Is growing
Is you
Remember
Galactic Tick Festival is part of the national cultural program Timișoara – European Capital of Culture in 2023 and is financed by the LoB2023+ program, run by the Center for Culture and Art of Timiș County, with amounts allocated from the state budget, through the budget of the Ministry of Culture.
The Timiș County Council financed the event through the Timiș County Culture and Art Center and the Ministry of Culture.
Galactic Tick Festival face parte din Programul cultural național Timișoara – Capitală Europeană a Culturii în anul 2023 și este finanțat prin programul LoB2023+, derulat de Centrul de Cultura și Artă al Județului Timiș, cu sume alocate de la bugetul de stat, prin bugetul Ministerului Culturii.
Eveniment finanțat de Consiliul Județean Timiș prin Centrul de Cultură și Artă al Județului Timiș și Ministerul Culturii.
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