Comments on: Another jaw-dropping time lapse video: Tempest

By: Quand les antennes du VLA dansent… | Parmi les étoiles

Quand les antennes du VLA dansent… | Parmi les étoiles — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:35:23 +0000

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By: Zeph

Zeph — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:13:08 +0000

@Gary – maybe a geosynchronous satellite, or a defective pixel in the camera. The latter should be easy to test for. For the former, if you know the direction of the camera perhaps you could see if the geometry makes it feasible; there is satellite aiming software on the web I believe.

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Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:40:32 +0000

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By: Gary Bailey

Gary Bailey — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:38:36 +0000

I play around with time lapse using a Rebel XTi with a Pcliz attachment… My stuff would be edited out of any of Randy Halverson’s beautiful creations.

However I have 374 photos taken on August 24 in two and a half hours. When I put them together using Windows Movie Maker there is a stationary object in the the sky. All the other stars and objects pass it by and it stays in the same spot without moving. for the full two and a half hours. What could it be ?

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Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:32:14 +0000

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Sat, 27 Aug 2011 05:58:52 +0000

[...] shot from Australia’s Southern Ocean Coast. Now we’re oohing and aahing over stunning night sky shots from South Dakota. Photographer Randy Halverston shot the time-lapse video of the Milky Way from June to August of [...]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:05:23 +0000

Messier Tidy Upper: You might be reminded of Hans Zimmer’s portion of the Dark Knight score. This isn’t that music, but it instantly reminded me of it. Listen to track #2 “I’m Not a Hero” for comparison.

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Early Bird Special - The Daily What — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:10:45 +0000

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By: Lars Bruchmann

Lars Bruchmann — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:01:24 +0000

Glenn@10: he is using very expensive camera equipment. Using wipe open apertures and ‘fast’ lenses one can capture a lot of light. That’s HST’s trick too. It also reveals colour which we cannot see at night.

By: Au-dessus de l’orage, la voie lactée… | Parmi les étoiles

Au-dessus de l’orage, la voie lactée… | Parmi les étoiles — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:45:36 +0000

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By: Buzz Parsec

Buzz Parsec — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:16:03 +0000

Glenn@10, it is a galaxy. Our galaxy, the Milky Way.

It looks just like many other long exposure (several seconds) photographs of the Milky Way taken through a wide-angle lens, except that it is particularly sharp

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 02:55:34 +0000

It’s a breath-taking shot, isn’t it?

YES! Sure is.

Superbly, magnificently wonderful.

The music also really strongly reminds me of something – a TV series or movie – but I’m not quite sure what. Anyone else feel that way or know what it might be from?

Never forget that: the Universe is beautiful, spectacular, and marvelous. Our job is to appreciate it, and try to understand it better.

^ This is the quote of the week, I reckon. Well said & thanks BA.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:59:47 +0000

Gorgeous video, but could someone please convince me that that backdrop behind the time lapse clouds is real? Looks like a telescope image of a galaxy, don’t think that’s possible from a ground level camera.

By: Richard Baldwin

Richard Baldwin — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:49:18 +0000

Makes me wish we could slow our own time sense down and speed it up, so we could choose to perceive the Milky Way and these storms’ movement like this all the time.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:14:03 +0000

Very beautiful.
I love hunting for geosynchronous sats in all these time-lapse vids .

By: Austism Alert

Austism Alert — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:11:46 +0000

AYOOOOGA AYOOOOOOGA

By: Thameron

Thameron — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:01:31 +0000

Nice film.

“the Universe is beautiful, spectacular, and marvelous.” Easily said from the scenic heights of Boulder, Colorado Dr. Pangloss. There are plenty of places in that same universe (right here on our little ball of rock in fact) that are hideous, wretched and toxic. The universe as a whole is not one thing or another unless you want to redefine mere existence as beautiful, spectacular, and marvelous which would certainly trivialize those terms.

By: Randy Halverson

Randy Halverson — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:31:06 +0000

Chris, there was nothing in the frame before or after it. Satellites will show up in more than one frame because they are moving much slower.

By: Yousuf

Yousuf — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:29:32 +0000

Is this real or a computerized mashup of different images?

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:27:14 +0000

This may be a silly question, but how do you know that’s a meteor and not an Iridium flare?

By: close to me

close to me — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:07:33 +0000

That video almost induce stendhal syndrome…

By: Chris A.

Chris A. — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:58:56 +0000

Love the frenetic quadruped (deer? elk?) that appears just before 2:00.