A Year Under The Stars

WOW!!! That is amazing!!! :twothumbs:
 
Should have mentioned, this is the video that has definite aurora borealis in Utah. Did you see it?




Adding this photo to this thread so that FB has a thumbnail when people link.
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You're way too good, man! How'd you do the panning? Do you have a rig for that or was it done in post-processing?
 
Thanks guys! :D

I didn't have enough content to do what I originally set out to do with this but I figured this was better than having to wait another year to get it done.

John Fowler said:
You're way too good, man! How'd you do the panning? Do you have a rig for that or was it done in post-processing?
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No rig, just in-software panning. Someday though....
 
ibenick said:
Should have mentioned, this is the video that has definite aurora borealis in Utah. Did you see it?
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Beginning at 33 seconds in?
 
Deadeye008 said:
Sweetness! Love the end when it gets fast. :twothumbs:
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Me too. I made several different versions of this before settling on this one. I really liked the fast sequences but it made it so I only had like a minute of content! Some of the fastest sequences are running upwards of 100 frames per second. I repeat, 100, thirty second exposures, PER SECOND! I'm going to be running my star trail shoots in a totally different way in 2012. :)
 
ibenick said:
Me too. I made several different versions of this before settling on this one. I really liked the fast sequences but it made it so I only had like a minute of content! Some of the fastest sequences are running upwards of 100 frames per second. I repeat, 100, thirty second exposures, PER SECOND! I'm going to be running my star trail shoots in a totally different way in 2012. :)
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So you gonna shoot longer timelapses? or how you gonna do it differently?
 
Deadeye008 said:
So you gonna shoot longer timelapses? or how you gonna do it differently?
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Yep. Much longer and more often. Before I would only set them up under ideal conditions to get a single star trail image so basically no clouds and a nice foreground. I'll probably start letting it run for hours on end, get a shorter trail out of the bunch and save the rest for time lapse videos. And clouds, more clouds! It would be cool to get a dolly but the only time I could ever really use it is on short day hikes and car camping so might not be worth it for me since I prefer backpacking.
 
have you ever thought about doing the timelapes with the slider effect? I made one this year out of PVC and a telescope motor. I am waiting for some better "warmer" nights to give it some more shots. The only downside I see about this is then I can't turn it into a star trail picture cause of the movement. Guess I will have to keep both cameras shooting.
 
wes242 said:
have you ever thought about doing the timelapes with the slider effect? I made one this year out of PVC and a telescope motor. I am waiting for some better "warmer" nights to give it some more shots. The only downside I see about this is then I can't turn it into a star trail picture cause of the movement. Guess I will have to keep both cameras shooting.
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For sure, that's what I was thinking of doing with the dolly, something like this would be awesome. But you're right, no way to get a star trail image out of it and also no way to do the trailing time lapse effect that I did in this video. I'd be really interested to see what you made out of PVC, sounds very interesting. And probably a bit cheaper than $900! :lol:
 
ibenick said:
For sure, that's what I was thinking of doing with the dolly, something like this would be awesome. But you're right, no way to get a star trail image out of it and also no way to do the trailing time lapse effect that I did in this video. I'd be really interested to see what you made out of PVC, sounds very interesting. And probably a bit cheaper than $900! :lol:
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I started working on a DIY dolly using stuff that I could find at Home Depot and a 12VDC motor that I bought for $13. But I'm about to give up. I can't find reduction gears for the motor, which spins at 8 rpm, and also I realized that I would need a stepper motor and some kind of synchronizer because the continuous motion from the motor otherwise would cause blurring with 30-second exposures. I actually have an arduino microcontroller that I bought for another project that I never finished either, so my record for actually finishing a project isn't good. That $900 rig is looking better all the time. I to would like to hear from others who have made DIY motion controllers.
 
I don't have many shots of it, and only used it a little at the beging of one of my videos....

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I use http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/546195-REG/Celestron_93514_Astromaster_Motor_Drive.html for the motor. But it will only do it side to side. It will pull the camera 4ft in 45 mins at the fastest speed I have it set at. Going to try more with it this year when it warms up.
 
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