Hey, let me know if you get tired of these amazing, hypnotic time lapse videos of the night sky.
No, wait: don’t tell me, because as long as they’re this cool I’ll keep posting ‘em anyway.
This is Randy Halverson’s video "Orion", named for obvious reasons. Well, one reason isn’t so obvious: the camera mount that allows him to do the ultra-slow pan and tilt is called "Orion" as well.
My favorite parts are 30 seconds in, where the Moon and stars of Gemini are behind the mesa, and 2:09 in, when he has a little meta fun. Randy also did the video "Sub Zero" which I posted a little while back.
I love love love these videos. And I have yet another very lovely one to post soon, too. But I don’t want to spoil you with too many all at once.
Related posts:
- Australian Outback time lapse
- Dust, from the desert below to the galaxy above
- Stunning winter sky timelapse video: Sub Zero
- OK, because I like y’all: bonus aurora timelapse video
- Sidereal Motion
- Amazing wide-angle time lapse night sky video
- AWESOME timelapse video: Rapture
April 28th, 2011 at 1:16 pm
I have a problem with these videos with all of the damn stars in them. I can’t find the constellations! I am so used to my beloved local light polluted skies(mag. 3.3 on a good night) where I can clearly make out five or six constellations that I find that all those other superfluous stars just confuse me.
April 28th, 2011 at 1:59 pm
I love The American Dollar! Oh, and the video is pretty awesome, too.
April 28th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Awesome video what can I say. Can’t get enough of them!
April 28th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
These time lapses are so amazing. Never stop posting them.
April 28th, 2011 at 3:18 pm
Muted the music and played Orion by Metallica under it instead. Changes everything!
April 28th, 2011 at 3:20 pm
What an awesomely talented and well-equipped, well-situated photographer!
April 28th, 2011 at 4:40 pm
Was the generic rock-pop music really necessary? Let the stoners add Dark Side of the Moon on their own.
April 28th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Isn’t his name Randy Halverson? Awesome video anyway.
April 28th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Space porn, I guess!
April 28th, 2011 at 7:47 pm
I am in awe of the well-balanced lighting, especially for the indoor/outdoor transitions. Nice scenery and interplay of sunlight, clouds, and the stars.
A more stately pace of the scenes would be nice. Still, amazing work. I like Sub Zero a lot. The glitter from the snow, and the halos in the sky really convey the chill.
April 28th, 2011 at 8:01 pm
Wired Science offers more details as well: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/time-lapse-astrophotography/
April 28th, 2011 at 8:14 pm
I too love in a light polluted area – which is why I absolutely LOVE these time lapses. Can’t imagine ever getting tired of them!
April 28th, 2011 at 8:25 pm
Contented sigh
April 28th, 2011 at 8:28 pm
Please give credit to RANDY Halverson.
April 28th, 2011 at 8:34 pm
That is Randy Halverson
April 28th, 2011 at 10:03 pm
For some reason Orion has a certain unidentifiable mystique to me. It’s always been one of my favorites; easy to spot and his appearance coincides with the very welcome cooler weather at the end of summer.
Bravo again, Dakota!
April 28th, 2011 at 11:32 pm
Not tired of them, but I wish my computer could play them smoothly.
Oddly, I keep noticing Lepus in these videos, maybe because Orion starts out so high, and maybe because I was born in the year of the (wood) rabbit.
April 29th, 2011 at 4:10 am
My computer would not play this video smoothly either, and the music kept cutting out, so I was not able to enjoy it. The music lacked atmosphere and seemed completely inappropriate to me, why not play something nice instead? I can think of several classical pieces which would fit the video much better.
April 29th, 2011 at 7:30 am
It’s really creepy to me when the moon leaves lens flares.
I’m with BigJohn — it’s hard for me to work out what I’m looking at with all those “faint” stars in the way! It’s like a completely different sky…
April 29th, 2011 at 7:45 am
I’ll NEVER get tired of watching these BA.
Or of seeing the latest Cassini images either. Thankyou – and please spoil us as much as you like.
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PS. Final countdown for the Endeavour orbiter and penultimate Shuttle flight ever now standing at 5 hours,55 minutes and 35 seconds.
April 29th, 2011 at 10:58 am
Hey, I LIKED the music bed. Generic? Hardly–unusual (non 4/4) time signature, complex rhythms, nice dynamics. I was waiting to see who it was at the end, but no credits. For those who didn’t catch it in sawilhelm’s post (#2), the artist is “The American Dollar” and the song was called “Equinox.”
April 29th, 2011 at 11:47 am
Keep puting them on I like em.Speaking of Orion ,its one of my favorte constellations I look forward to seeing it every winter.Phil could you put something on heer about the apperent conection between Orion and the pyramids of Giza ? The idea is the layout of the pyramids at Giza resembels the stars in Orion ,at frist glance it dose in patular three pymarids in a line that looks like the stars in the belt of Orion ,but after looking at again if the layout was supose to resemble the stars in Orion theres a couple of pyrmids missing.
April 29th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Either my phone is retardded or I am. I don’t see any links to said video? All I see is a link to the sub-zero video.
April 29th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
The music is Equinox by The American Dollar. There is more info on my website or the vimeo page http://vimeo.com/22700617
April 30th, 2011 at 9:31 am
For some reason all the Vimeo videos have started working badly for me, the last few weeks. It’s more “won’t play at all” than “won’t play smoothly”, though. Two different computers, two different OSes (but neither is Windows). No problems with YouTube etc.
April 30th, 2011 at 10:12 am
Nemo, it is also on youtube search for “orion dakotalapse”