Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.
Time-lapse photography is very cool to do, but fairly difficult. It requires a lot of patience, and the willingness to spend hours with your camera pointed at one subject without knowing whether or not your photos will turn out until it’s all said and done. Astrophotography is an easier form of time-lapse (at least in my opinion) but it still takes a lot of patience and time.
This clever fellow took a series of twenty second exposures over a nine hour time frame, and then stacked them together to make a video. He used a modified Canon 5D with a 15mm fisheye lens, and I would assume some type of external power supply since 9 hours is a long time to run on the stock battery pack. It’s quite stunning and well worth your time to watch it in it’s entirety. Having tried to do this myself in the past, I can tell you that it’s not as simple as it looks.
Very cool — noticed several shooting stars, but didn’t spot any satellites.
Yes, very cool. But since the exposures are only 20 seconds wouldn’t the satellites appear more like shooting stars? Just a thought.
Possibly, but I was looking at the entry/exit points and the angle they were crossing the sky.
You guys at crunchgear are kind of on a time-lapse photography kick, aren’t you?
I’m not complaining, this stuff’s neat
I’ll admit, photography is a passion of mine, so yeah. We may be running more stories about time lapse and astrophotography.
please do i love these things. Thanks
I like photography and art,i’d class this as both.
Is the “modified ” statement a reference to the 5D’s extended running time (an ac adaptor of some sort), or did he do something else to the camera? Thanks!
The modification he mentions is to extend the red sensitivity of the camera. The camera has had the ir filter removed that sits in front of the ccd. This mod involves taking the camera apart, a couple of specialists will perform the surgery for a fee. If you want to learn more about this google (or bing) Hap Griffin.
That was totally awesome. Great post, I have never seen the milkyway look so clear from non space photos.
I started “hunter by a freak” by mogwai with the vid and it fit well…
That was awesome! All hail fisheye!
Wow! It gets really awesome 20 seconds in.
just a penny from each star and we’d pay off the debt by a trillion-fold…wow are we insignificant!