Astrid announces at breakfast that she is fasting for the Jewish day of mourning of Tisha B'Av, which is the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av. That evening, the resort guests gather to watch a meteor shower under a full moon. The Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar, so Tisha B'Av would be 6 days before the full moon. Astrid is then still fasting the next day. However, Tisha B'Av begins just before sundown one evening, and ends just after sundown the following evening. If Astrid had been fasting at breakfast, the fast would've ended that night, not continued the next day.
While they did get it right that the annual Perseid meteor shower is made up of debris from the passage of Comet Swift-Tuttle, the idea that the display is of short duration ("five to seven minutes"), takes place in one particular part of the sky, and can be viewed through telescopes is not quite right.
The display takes place over a substantial part of several nights in a row, is viewable in every part of the sky, and is best viewed with the naked eye. A telescope is useless, as each meteor appears as a brief flash of a few seconds duration--not long enough to aim a scope at it.
Also, at roughly 27:39 (on Amazon) a Newtonian telescope appears on the left. The telescope is pointing the wrong way. The eyepiece on a Newtonian, protruding at a right angle to the telescope axis, is at the front end, not at the back.
The display takes place over a substantial part of several nights in a row, is viewable in every part of the sky, and is best viewed with the naked eye. A telescope is useless, as each meteor appears as a brief flash of a few seconds duration--not long enough to aim a scope at it.
Also, at roughly 27:39 (on Amazon) a Newtonian telescope appears on the left. The telescope is pointing the wrong way. The eyepiece on a Newtonian, protruding at a right angle to the telescope axis, is at the front end, not at the back.
When the guests of Steiner Resort are watching the meteor shower, numerous telescopes are set up as if they'd be used by some observers.
However, telescopes only view a small portion of the sky as their field of view is extremely narrow. Pointing one towards the sky would be useless as you would have to wait on the off chance a meteor fly by its view and even if it did, you'd never see it as nearly all meteors burn up in less than one second.
However, telescopes only view a small portion of the sky as their field of view is extremely narrow. Pointing one towards the sky would be useless as you would have to wait on the off chance a meteor fly by its view and even if it did, you'd never see it as nearly all meteors burn up in less than one second.
When Astrid is with the Rabbi, the prayer book is the Shabbat & Holiday edition of Siddur Sim Shalom, which was not published until several decades later.
When Rose enters the synagogue, she picks up a siddur (Jewish prayer book) from a pile to her right. The siddur that is used for this prop is Siddur Sim Shalom, which wasn't published until 1985.