In December 2014 and June 2015, as an astronomer I was lucky enough to to visit La Silla Observatory in Chile. Part of the European Southern Observatory, La Silla is home to dozens of working telescopes, including the 1.2m Swiss Telescope, on which I worked. While there I turned my camera to the skies, taking nearly 10,000 photos. This video is the result.
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Technical details:
I was using a Nikon D3200, with remote shutter (although when this broke, an elastic band over the shutter did the job), Hama tripod and both the basic Zeiko 18-52mm lens and Sigma 12-24mm wide-angle lens. I also used my GoPro occasionally for the twilight sequences.
In total, I took around 200GB of photos. Exposure times were from 25 to 40 seconds and ISO levels from 400 to 1600. In total, I ended up with about 60 sequences of ~1hr in length, totaling nearly 3 days of shutter open time! The first batch (from December 2014) went on a hard-drive that later broke, so a few dozen other sequences were lost (and a few more weren't very well reduced). I used UFRaw to reduce the images convert to jpg, Panolapse to create the moving timelapses and Lightworks to assemble the video.
The music is Modern Drift by Efterklang, all rights for which are the property of 4AD and Rumraket.
Cast: Hugh Osborn
Tags: science, space, travel, astronomy, observatory, chile, mily way, galaxy, planet, moon and timelapse
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