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Demonstration of Aberration of light and Relativistic Doppler effect. This images shows the view on a sphere moving at 0.7c relatively to a stationary observer, which is represented by blue point. Curved lines represent the xy grid coordinates of a moving system.
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This sphere moves towards the observer.

On this picture an observer is inside the sphere.

This sphere moves away from observer.

In this diagram, the blue point represents the observer. The x,y-plane is represented by yellow graph paper. As the observer accelerates, he sees the graph paper change colors. Also he sees the distortion of the x,y-grid due to the aberration of light. The black line is the y-axis. The observer accelerates along the x-axis. Velocity is 0.44 speed of light.
Animation: Media:XYCoordinates.gif

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