Compressed Time at the Australia Telescope Compact Array 34
epaell writes "I've been playing a little bit with time-lapse and video editing over the last week while Duty Astronomer at the CSIRO's Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) near Narrabri in country New South Wales (Australia). Playing with video is all quite a new experience for me but I had fun putting this together and thought others may enjoy it. I've captured a number of videos of and around the telescope and attempted to highlight not only the instrument and the skies but also some of the wildlife we encounter on a daily basis while observing there. It also includes an obligatory video of cockatoos taking a hayride on one of the dishes and the frogs in the control room that are our constant companions during long observing sessions :-) I recommend switching from 360p to 1080p and setting on full-screen mode to get the full effect of the video."
cool (Score:2, Interesting)
Very nice work. Can you tell us about your gear and what you did to get it all coming out so nicely?
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Equipment: Canon 5D Mk II (for all video and time-lapse imagery);
Canon 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye (for wide-field shots);
Canon 75-300mm f/4-5.6 (for animal scenes and zoom shots);
Canon TC80N3 Timer Remote Control
Software: Quicktime Pro (to generate video from stills); iMovie to edit and compile movie.
More things to see (Score:5, Informative)
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This one is nice too: http://vimeo.com/23205323 [vimeo.com]
Since two weeks, I saw very good videos of this kind.
Re:More things to see (Score:4, Informative)
Don't forget this one [vimeo.com]. Some of the best aurora footage I've ever seen.
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Re:More things to see (Score:4, Interesting)
Also this one from the VLT in Chile - stunning stuff!! http://youtu.be/wFpeM3fxJoQ [youtu.be]
Re:Slashdot: News for Nerds, stuff that matters (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, he's right! We should go back to arguing about which smartphone OS is the best!
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Emacs rules! (And besides, it has an OS built in).
Thank you (Score:4, Interesting)
Very, very nicely done work. Thank you for the break, and the demonstration of why art and science aren't always two different things.
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They are pretty much the same thing: well done science is a piece of art.
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Very nice! (Score:1)
Another video (Score:3)
This is in the same spirit, from VLT in Chile:
http://www.youtube.com/user/NikoBustos#p/a/u/1/wFpeM3fxJoQ [youtube.com]
This doesn't happen much on /. (Score:1)
What's that bird? (Score:1)
I've never seen a bird rolling around on the ground playing with something before. What kind of bird is that?
Is that the same kind of bird as the group that's grooming each other later in the video?
Oh -- and am I correct that the lights streaking across the night view at various points are aircraft, and not meteors?
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The grey bird rolling around is an Apostle bird (Struthidea cinerea).
Dog help me (Score:2)
Man, I read that as Australia Tesseract Array. Which would be pretty damn cool.
"The Dish" (Score:1)
If you want to see a great nerdy movie about australian space telescopes (Specifically, Parkes), make sure you see "The Dish". One of the great australian movies, IMHO. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/ [imdb.com]
It's a true storey about the "Fun" that was had when a small group of Aussies and the Parkes telescope became pivotal in the apollo 11 moon mission.
This is why I read slashdot (Score:1)
For articles like this. Thanks.
Nice. (Score:2)
Nicely done. This wonderful universe we live in keeps amazing me with it's beauty.
When I saw the cackatoos ride the dish, just for a moment I got the impression that they now full well what's going on there and are tagging along to see what happens, too.
Well done (Score:2)
Very nice! I got a laugh out of the bird wrestling with the leaf/twig, and the frog at the end was suitably freaky. A nice blend of real-time and time-lapse work. And good choice of music. I look forward to seeing more of your work.
Good luck!