A Year Under The Stars

[Nick]

Turn up the volume and enjoy.

 

[HomerJ]

WOW!!! That is amazing!!! :twothumbs:

 

[Nick]

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.

 

[Bill]

so sick man

 

[John Fowler]

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?

 

[IntrepidXJ]

Nice job!

 

[Nick]

Thanks guys!

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.

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?

No rig, just in-software panning. Someday though....

 

[Yvonne]

wow and wow again. This is so awesome. :twothumbs:

 

[Seldom Seen Anderson]

legend...wait for it...dary!

 

[HomerJ]

Should have mentioned, this is the video that has definite aurora borealis in Utah. Did you see it?

Beginning at 33 seconds in?

 

[wes242]

nice video, been working on doing something like this myself this year.

 

[Nick]

Beginning at 33 seconds in?

Yep. Pretty wild. I really wish I'd let that sequence keep running...

 

[Deadeye008]

Sweetness! Love the end when it gets fast. :twothumbs:

 

[Nick]

Sweetness! Love the end when it gets fast. :twothumbs:

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.

 

[Deadeye008]

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.

So you gonna shoot longer timelapses? or how you gonna do it differently?

 

[Nick]

So you gonna shoot longer timelapses? or how you gonna do it differently?

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.

 

[wes242]

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.

 

[Nick]

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.

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!

 

[John Fowler]

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!

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.

 

[wes242]

I don't have many shots of it, and only used it a little at the beging of one of my videos....

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.