Panning time-lapse experiment

February 3rd, 2011

At the beginning of January we went for a short weekend break to a place near lake Eildon in Victoria and the sky cleared one night for a change.

I wanted to test my new Orion Teletrack motorised tripod head for panning horizontally with the speed of Earth rotation. I had a few technical glitches and the result is not quite what I had in mind but is nice nonetheless. The first part of the time lapse is illuminated by the gas torches around the farm house.

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12 Comments for this entry

  1. Joe G.:

    WOW! Great videos, I wish we had a night sky like that here in Atlanta, GA.

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    July 8th, 2011 at 12:35 am
  2. Ron:

    Nicely done Alex What time laps and camera settings did you use Cheers Ron

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    July 11th, 2011 at 9:32 pm
    • terrastro:

      Thanks, Ron.

      I use a standard tripod, Nikon D700 with Nikkor 14-24mm lens at f/2.8 (no filters) and 30 sec exposures at ISO 3200 and choose a moonless night away from the city lights (150kms and beyond). I also use Stellarium (www.stellarium.org) to determine where things will be in the night sky.

      For time lapses the exposures go one after the other with the shortest possible delay (1 sec).

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      July 11th, 2011 at 9:34 pm
  3. Warren Wrigglesworth:

    You have created some extraordinary time-lapse videos and stills! Congratulations on your award! You are a very talented photographer!
    I have a Nikon D7000 with Nikor 18-200 F3.5 – f/5.6 lens. I am thinking of trying to do some of the stills and time lapse images you have done. I guess with a f/5.6 aperature I would have to set my ISO at 6400 or buy a lense like yours, eh? I have a standard tripod.
    Any further suggestions?
    Again,
    CONGRATULATIONS!
    Warren Wrigglesworth
    34 Enderby Crescent
    St. Albert, Alberta
    Canada
    e-mail http://www.onawing@telus.net

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    July 13th, 2011 at 8:17 am
    • terrastro:

      Hi Warren,

      Your lens should work okay at 18mm and f/3.5
      Alex

      Reply
      July 13th, 2011 at 7:46 pm
  4. Eric L.:

    Hi,
    Very nice video, what is the author and title of the music?
    Regards,
    Eric

    Reply
    July 14th, 2011 at 10:19 am
  5. Maria:

    Your work is simply breathtaking!!!! Soooooooo eerily beautiful!! Thank you so much for sharing!!! I look forward to more in the future!

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    July 14th, 2011 at 8:43 pm
  6. dale:

    Really beautiful. The motionless films were brilliant. This just adds an additional unique element to the film, making it that much better.

    Thanks for sharing these, really enjoyed them.

    db

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    July 15th, 2011 at 11:00 pm
  7. Dan:

    Absolutely beautiful! Well done. Keep up the gorgous images.

    Reply
    July 16th, 2011 at 5:53 am
  8. chris:

    Do you have dvd’s available for purchase of these time lapsed events?

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    July 22nd, 2011 at 2:33 am
    • terrastro:

      I am working on it. It is a slow process and a night of imaging produces 40 seconds of video. So far in two years I have made about seven minutes of video and I would like to get at least half an hour of footage before releasing a DVD. So stay tuned…

      Reply
      July 22nd, 2011 at 2:41 am

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