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August 28, 2011

Beautiful Time-Lapse Videos
— rdbrewer

Watch these in full screen mode to get the full effect.

Update: I found the hi-resolution version of Tempest Milky Way. (On the Vimeo videos, it might be best to start them and then hit pause to let them load before resuming.)

Open thread. Information on Terje Sorgjerd's The Mountain, below:

The Mountain from TSO Photography on Vimeo.

Explanation of Tempest Milky Way, below:

Tempest Milky Way from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.

Gorgeous, but I thought the music choice on that one was poor. Here's a 360 degree time lapse video of Paranal observatory by Stephane Guisard :

Paranal2:

On the Painted VLT by Stephane Guisard (Paranal):

On the Painted VLT from Rama Loosenut on Vimeo.

Posted by: rdbrewer at 03:03 PM | Comments (77)
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1 That's breathtaking...makes the ScoaMF seem, well he's still a SCoaMF.

Posted by: no good deed at August 28, 2011 03:05 PM (mjR67)

2 Thats Spectacular, thank you for that.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 28, 2011 03:07 PM (ZDUD4)

3 This is like the cinematic equivalent of an Ace post - too scrolly, man.

Posted by: Nash Rambler at August 28, 2011 03:08 PM (/Cz3M)

4
*sigh* That Paranal telescopes one was a big let down.

Posted by: Bawney Fwank at August 28, 2011 03:09 PM (ttbVS)

5 Gorgeous. thanks.

Posted by: proudonkey at August 28, 2011 03:09 PM (NadeK)

I was just down in the neighborhood of the VLT. The night sky really looks like like, even with the naked eye. It is amazing... then you get out your optics and things get insane.

Posted by: Morris at August 28, 2011 03:10 PM (vPixS)

7 Since this is open thread, I was wondering if anyone had seen this, and if any Bachmann fan can explain what the first thing she said means??

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE4OPMmdPsg&feature

I'll admit I'm not a big fan of hers (I'm for the P's right now) but this will make us ALL look bad!

Does she have ANYONE letting her know that cameras are always running?!

Thanks

Posted by: JarvisW at August 28, 2011 03:15 PM (8yPsP)

8 OMG these are unbelievably breathtaking and awesome, thank you for sharing. I had the sound muted and was listenting to Little Steven's Underground Garage on Sirius while watching these and nearly spooged in my cargo shorts. Wow.

Posted by: Yojimbo at August 28, 2011 03:17 PM (F1zuO)

9 I find myself more and more thrilled that Colin Powell didn't run for President as we would be almost as disappointed in him as the Democrats are of Obama.

Cheapshot whines about cheapshots.

My respect for him gets lower every time he opens his mouth.

Posted by: I don't know WHO I am anymore at August 28, 2011 03:20 PM (iniPz)

10 Obama's still a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at August 28, 2011 03:20 PM (1fLwj)

11 Nice, but do you have a time lapse Brittany Spears pubic hair sprouting? Want to see one?

Posted by: Pooter Hound at August 28, 2011 03:22 PM (le5qc)

12 How am i supposed to watch all that celestial majesty and still keep the moron vibe going? Thanks, breathtaking and disorienting. Matt

Posted by: matt at August 28, 2011 03:23 PM (nHJ2z)

13 When I was twelve we spent a moonless night on a big granite formation called Enchanted Rock.
Very remote location.
It was the first time I saw the Milky Way turn through the sky.
Always a poet and dreamer after that.

Posted by: De' Debil Hisself at August 28, 2011 03:27 PM (lpWVn)

14 How beautiful. I've never been anywhere the night sky has so many visible stars. Bucket list!

Posted by: snowcrash at August 28, 2011 03:30 PM (T/g1q)

15 B-but where are the boobies?

Posted by: What every AOS moron is thinking at this point at August 28, 2011 03:32 PM (ijjAe)

16 That Paranal telescope looked like it was taking a leak.

Posted by: TexasJew at August 28, 2011 03:33 PM (+cOEs)

17 If you look carefully, you can read "Rick Perry luvs Islam" in the stars.

Posted by: P. Gellar, super sleuth at August 28, 2011 03:36 PM (5H6zj)

18 16 B-but where are the boobies?

Posted by: What every AOS moron is thinking at this point at August 28, 2011 07:32 PM (ijjAe)

18 If you look carefully, you can read "Rick Perry luvs Islam" in the stars.

Posted by: P. Gellar, super sleuth at August 28, 2011 07:36 PM (5H6zj)

SHHH! You're going to bring the Juggies back!

Posted by: JarvisW at August 28, 2011 03:37 PM (8yPsP)

19 What kind of optics are you into Morris? I'm a bino guy.

Posted by: pawn at August 28, 2011 03:39 PM (iMsF6)

SHHH! You're going to bring the Juggies back!

Posted by: JarvisW at August 28, 2011 07:37 PM (8yPsP)

but we like Juggies. big, small, we dont care we like them all.

Posted by: Racefan at August 28, 2011 03:46 PM (acGgQ)

21 Beautiful videos.

Just a quick technical question though.

Sometimes when I play a YouTube video, I don't see the video, only blobs and vertical lines of color. It only happens with some videos. It happens here with the middle video, but not with any of the others. Does anyone else have this problem? What can be done about it? I am running the latest version of Firefox, under Windows 7.

Posted by: chemjeff at August 28, 2011 03:47 PM (s7mIC)

22 @20 What kind of optics are you into Morris? I'm a bino guy.

BINO!!!!!

Posted by: the moron who shouts BINO! at August 28, 2011 03:48 PM (5H6zj)

23 Very cool vids, brewer.

Posted by: lu at August 28, 2011 03:49 PM (Q22MP)

24 Zoinks! Made a really great point in the last thread, and got preempted. Oh well. By the way, did you know Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure? I think I read that somewhere.

Posted by: Hey.Wheres.Barry at August 28, 2011 03:49 PM (hyP1j)

25 Posted by: Racefan at August 28, 2011 07:46 PM (acGgQ)

lol, well, they were fun to play with last night.. Tho, I just stared at them, hypothesized by them if you will...

Posted by: JarvisW at August 28, 2011 03:51 PM (8yPsP)

26 One thing that is fascinating about the first video is the depth of field. Things close up and things far away are both in crisp focus. Must be some kind of pinhole type aperture. Or something with a tiny, tiny lens.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 28, 2011 03:51 PM (qHgfT)

Posted by: JarvisW at August 28, 2011 07:15 PM (8yPsP)

Do you mean the beginning, when she supposedly says "Who likes white people?" It is not clear to me that that is what she actually said. I can't really make out the words but it is not _clearly_ "who likes white people".

Posted by: chemjeff at August 28, 2011 03:53 PM (s7mIC)

28 BTW, like Blitz said in the other thread, when is the Football Pool starting??

We have almost an Hr left for the Fantasy draft, but I'm better at picking teams straight up!

Thanks!

Posted by: JarvisW at August 28, 2011 03:53 PM (8yPsP)

29 Chemjeff, try going into control panel (if Windows) and clicking on Flash Player. See if you can update your player.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 28, 2011 03:53 PM (qHgfT)

30 Jeff, you tube always works great for me.......... but hulu never does.

Posted by: Racefan at August 28, 2011 03:55 PM (acGgQ)

31 I saw some of these some months ago. The soundtrack to the first one is spectacular. I bought it, and it just keeps getting better every time I play it.
Nuvolo Bianchi, by Ludovico Einaudi, available at Amazon.

Posted by: pep at August 28, 2011 03:56 PM (6TB1Z)

32 Posted by: chemjeff at August 28, 2011 07:53 PM (s7mIC)

Yeah, I saw another one where she said "Because we have the God of the Wind and Rain" so she prob said "WET people".. But its the optics.. Sure the O has said worse, but we all know shes going to be held to a different standard, and I bet this will hit the Kos and Hufffing paint fan b4 tomorrow..

Does ANYONE check what she is going to say before she takes a stage?

Elvis, John Wayne?? heh..

Posted by: JarvisW at August 28, 2011 03:56 PM (8yPsP)

33 Kessler Timefest 2011 has some beautiful time lapse footage. A friend of mine posted a link to the equipment they used. The link is for photog geeks. I didn't understand half of it because I haven't advanced past point and shoot. Still pretty cool though.

http://vimeo.com/28070401

Posted by: no good deed at August 28, 2011 03:56 PM (mjR67)

34 Question about the first video. Is that George Winston playing piano? Sounds Winston'ish. Beautiful video.

Posted by: stillers at August 28, 2011 03:59 PM (wg2Rf)

35 Hey, you guys, I found the hi-res version of Tempest Milky Way, the second video.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 28, 2011 04:00 PM (qHgfT)

Posted at CNN with video of him in the coma,

CNN Exclusive: Lockerbie bomber comatose, near death, family says http://tinyurl.com/4x5fx92

Hope it was long and painful.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at August 28, 2011 04:01 PM (GKQDR)

37 If the End Times are coming why bother looking out there? Just more gubberment money wastin'. I'll have another Oly now.

Posted by: Okie From Muskogie at August 28, 2011 04:02 PM (PjyR/)

38 #35
see 32

Posted by: pep at August 28, 2011 04:03 PM (6TB1Z)

39 10,000 Citizens killed by foreigners in the US since 9/11.

Posted by: War in US at August 28, 2011 04:05 PM (lTeYj)

40 Huh - so I updated my Flash player, and now I get the blobs when I try to run it in full screen mode, but not otherwise.
Weird.

Posted by: chemjeff at August 28, 2011 04:05 PM (s7mIC)

41 JarvisW, well the video has already hit DU (surprise surprise) and the DUmmies are saying that the name of the band that opened for her is "White People Funk Band" so that is what she's referring to, apparently. But I tried googling for this band and I couldn't find a reference to it. So, who knows. It's all kinda dumb anyway.

Posted by: chemjeff at August 28, 2011 04:08 PM (s7mIC)

42 Get the blobs? Is that like get the squirts? Yuk

Posted by: Pooter Hound at August 28, 2011 04:08 PM (le5qc)

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 28, 2011 08:00 PM (qHgfT)

oh yeah, well i found some hi-res lesbians with big boobies....... so top that.

Posted by: Racefan at August 28, 2011 04:09 PM (acGgQ)

44 God is awesome! SCOAMF...not so much.

Posted by: Forrest Gump at August 28, 2011 04:11 PM (oCMdU)

Wow, that was awesome. My pocket protector is hard.

I camped out in the Chocolate Mountains between San Diego and El Centro some years ago. The sky looked just like that, breathtaking. I'd never seen the Milky Way with my naked eyes before nor since. I also found some seashells up at around 3,000 ft. And lots of lava rock. Neat place.

Chemjeff, have you tried changing the resolution? That usually works for me. The first video I got all the green pixels and shit until I clicked on the highest resolution.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 28, 2011 04:11 PM (d0Tfm)

46 Chemjeff, ah, at least they are trying to explain it.. I still think its WET people tho.. And still looks bad if put into a short video.

Tho her gaffes would only be what, 15 seconds, where the SCOAMF's vid is over 2 mins and thats leaving out some of the BEST ones! lol

Posted by: JarvisW at August 28, 2011 04:12 PM (8yPsP)

47 jeff some putters just dont work well watching stuff in full screen, i think its a memory think. if it works ok in Reg. screen size you might just have to live with it. or spend a few bucks.

Posted by: Racefan at August 28, 2011 04:14 PM (acGgQ)

48 Found another hi-res video, the last one.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 28, 2011 04:18 PM (qHgfT)

49 Hey, changing the resolution on the video did it! Duh, what a simple solution. Thanks, now I feel like an idiot.

Posted by: chemjeff at August 28, 2011 04:22 PM (s7mIC)

50 As did I when I first found that solution. I started up a 32-bit version of Explorer instead of the usual 64-bit version when I began having troub...um, never mind.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 28, 2011 04:27 PM (d0Tfm)

51 Why is no one talking about me anymore? I'm smart, and I demand respect!!! AND QUIT LOOKING DOWN MY LOW CUT BLOUSE AT MY BRA LESS TITTIES!!!

Posted by: Pam G at August 28, 2011 04:33 PM (l0bCe)

52 Tom Lowe started this trend, he won the Astronomy Photographer of the Year from the Royal Observatory.

Check out his vimeo channel:

Posted by: Jose at August 28, 2011 04:34 PM (WTNJJ)

...

Waste of money that we don't have.
Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC at August 28, 2011 08:01 PM (hXJOG)

From the link for above for TSOPhotography

Thank you to my sponsors:
canon.com
g-technology.eu
dynamicperception.com/ (Best dolly in the world!)

I think I speak for a lot of Morons here when I say, "Lighten up, Francis."

(It doesn't have to be 'on' ALL THE DAMN TIME...)

Posted by: Warthog at August 28, 2011 04:38 PM (syTu6)

54 The Northern Lights as seen from a "fly in" resort in Northern Ontario. reaffirmed my belief that there is a G-d and he is bigger than anything I could ever truly understand. Good evening Moron/ettes.

Posted by: Osama bin Truck Monkey, TEArrorist at August 28, 2011 04:40 PM (jucos)

55 In that fourth video, one can clearly discern the image of Grover Norquist.

That makes you all dhimmis.

Posted by: R. Spencer, Jihad Scholar Extraordinaire at August 28, 2011 04:42 PM (s7mIC)

56 Fourteen minutes to the draft.

If I flash my boobehs, can the Verdant Wolverines draft higher than #12?

If that isn't your thing, what if Mr Y-not shows his boobehs?

Posted by: Y-not at August 28, 2011 04:47 PM (5H6zj)

57 O/T but I know it's open Contessa Brewer is leaving MSNBC folks just read it on a Facebook post,mouth breather's hardest hit.

Posted by: TEE866 at August 28, 2011 04:48 PM (BLQTz)

58 Billy Bob,
rallying against science and research,
on the internet.
The irony.

Look around you buddy. The work of scientists, researchers and engineers is what gave you your lifestyle.

Those people who gave you all those things are also suffering as a result of the current socialist policies and are very aware of that. Don't confuse academics who get paid for talking for a living with the ones who get their hands dirty.

And some of the work is just from serious hobbyists. The access to technology is easier for them as well.

You'll miss us when were gone and all the new stuff comes out of India and China and your kids are changing bedpans for a living.

Posted by: pawn at August 28, 2011 04:51 PM (iMsF6)

59 another good one, Rapture

Posted by: Jose at August 28, 2011 04:52 PM (WTNJJ)

60 Posted by: TEE866 at August 28, 2011 08:48 PM (BLQTz)
You misspelled her first name!

The night sky, without light pollution, is a truly beautiful thing.

Good news is that as we descend into the economic maelstrom designed by the SCFOAMF, fewer and fewer people will be able to turn lights on, and mankind will once again emerge from their caves to admire the glory of the stars.

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 28, 2011 04:55 PM (yrGif)

@37

My understanding is that government is there to do the things that individuals, families, churches, towns, counties, and states cannot: form a national military, carry out diplomacy with other countries, build interstate roads, and space exploration. It's why I'm just sick that America is out of the space business even though we're broke.

If the government wasn't doing the things that these smaller entities can do for themselves--health care, education, housing, agriculture, welfare, retirement, self-regulation of business and industry--there'd be plenty of money for the very limited numbers of things that only a federal government has the kind of juice to do.

Posted by: Palandine at August 28, 2011 04:56 PM (g7D8V)

62 60 Billy Bob,
rallying against science and research,
on the internet.

If you want to be appalled, go read the anti-evolution Headlines post over at Hot Air.

Posted by: Y-not at August 28, 2011 04:56 PM (5H6zj)

63 Posted by: Palandine at August 28, 2011 08:56 PM (g7D8V)

Yep.

I am not keen on having the "good people" at Google controlling space.

Posted by: Y-not at August 28, 2011 04:58 PM (5H6zj)

64 MORONS PARTICIPATING IN THE NFL FF LEAGUE THE DRAFT IS IN 2 MINUTES

Posted by: Ben at August 28, 2011 04:58 PM (DKV43)

65 #20 pawn- I took my 20x80 bins because I could fit them as a carry on to chile. Almost everywhere I stayed they had a dome with a 12-16 inch s-c reflector with gps. I liked my bins best though. Just point intomthe milky way and start looking for fuzzies. Big bins are heavy but I could not fit my tripod in a suitcase.

Posted by: Morris at August 28, 2011 05:05 PM (vPixS)

66 Also- are you in a dark sky area? Cause the sky down there blew me away.

Posted by: Morris at August 28, 2011 05:07 PM (vPixS)

67 Wow, RD. That was amazing. Thank you so much!

Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch a Teaorrist who is glad GGE is Un-Banned at August 28, 2011 05:08 PM (otfJ1)

68 If you want to be appalled, go read the anti-evolution Headlines post over at Hot Air.

Posted by: Y-not at August 28, 2011 08:56 PM (5H6zj)

Appalled? how so? I have been asking those same four questions that the guy they linked asked of Darwinists for years and haven't recieved an asnwer.

Darwinism is just like intelligent design or creationism, an unproven theory that relies on faith.

If you are going to claim you Darwinism is a science then fine, I like science. I just want to see it instead of someone telling me it's science.

Posted by: robtr at August 28, 2011 05:11 PM (MtwBb)

69 32 I saw some of these some months ago. The soundtrack to the first one is spectacular. I bought it, and it just keeps getting better every time I play it.
Nuvolo Bianchi, by Ludovico Einaudi, available at Amazon.

Posted by: pep at August 28, 2011 07:56 PM (6TB1Z)

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Loved that.

Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch a Teaorrist who is glad GGE is Un-Banned at August 28, 2011 05:12 PM (otfJ1)

70 Morris,

Sadly I live in costal Florida where the sky is pretty trashed. During the winter we get some dry nights with good seeing/transparacy. I usually haul my meger gear down to the Keys a couple times during the summer. There's a regular star party on Bahia Honda every new moon. Clear visibility all the way to the southern horizon and very dark skys. So awesome it will make you pee your pants. Omega Centari looks so beautiful that far south.

I just picked up a set of vintage 7X50s with a 10+ degree field of view. A real spacewalk experience crusing the MW.

Have you tried a monopod with your 20x80s?

Posted by: pawn at August 28, 2011 06:27 PM (iMsF6)

Just excellent, all of them. Thanks for the simple reminders of my true significance in the scheme. Did anyone see the buck at 1:59 in the Tempest Milky Way? He appears near the gate. Mystical.

Posted by: Errol at August 28, 2011 06:52 PM (d2AYO)

72 www.xqcyw.com

Posted by: dd at August 28, 2011 09:06 PM (MdliN)

#72 pawn I do have a decent tripod for the 20 x 80's but could not haul it with me on the plane ride. I use it at home though. Also have an 8" Dobsonian that I really like. Truly a beginners scope I'm sure but it's all I really need. I enjoy heading out to the backyard with a few cold beers and trying to find stuff in my suburban PA skies.

I like how a few of the cobologgers put up astro theme posts from time to time. Keeps us geeks grinning.

Have a good day.

Posted by: Morris at August 29, 2011 02:55 AM (vPixS)

74 Morris,

Monopod:

http://www.garrettoptical.com
Search for monopod

Yeah the astro stuff let's me know this crowd is real.

Posted by: pawn at August 29, 2011 04:23 AM (iMsF6)

75 Wow i really found this to be an interesting read; thanks for sharing

Posted by: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People AudioBook at August 29, 2011 05:29 AM (M5Dck)

76 pawn, thanks for the link. It would have been a good idea to have one of those for the sake of balancing!

Posted by: Morris at August 29, 2011 05:29 AM (oEq2J)

77 Thanks

Posted by: dreambox at August 29, 2011 08:09 PM (Nij6I)

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