One of the most beautiful natural phenomena are misterious noctilucent clouds (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctilucent_cloud). These night clouds appear only few times in the summer at very high altitude - about 80 km! Due to this they are illuminated by direct solar rays and seem to a ground observer emitting light themselves. Belarus is situated at ideal latitudes to observe this phenomenon and can be named The Land Under silver Clouds. In this short film all observations of noctilucent clouds in the summer 2013 are shown.
Re: Submissions: 2013 September
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 1:44 am
by markg
The Art of Night is a short film of highlights from my astrophotography journey. It contains imagery from when I first seriously started photographing the night sky until now.
Images, time-lapse and video were shot over a period of three years around the Wellington region on the North Island of New Zealand. This region is blessed with relatively low light pollution and has some of the darkest skies in New Zealand once you head out to the remote areas of the Wairarapa.
Overall I shot more than 20,000 individual images for the time-lapse with the final edit consisting of just 3,000 of those. This equates to approximately 25 hours of real time footage within the film.
I hope you enjoy the the film as much as I did making it
This short-film is awarded Vimeo Staff-pick, and consist of over 1 year of footage, as well as real-time sequences of some furiously fast moving auroras! Such scenes may never have been captured before..
Among the natives in Nordic regions as well as north America, auroras was considered to be the dancing spirits of the dead..
Although we today know most of the scientifics behind the auroras, it is no wonder that auroras are mentioned in many folklores, and it is understandable it sometimes can make people religious when watching it.
To me, auroras is THE most fantastic astonomical phenomenon, and it is the only astronomical phenomenon we can experience in this size and speed with our own eyes, if you are close, but not at, the poles of our planet.
This is the year of solar maximum of our current solar cycle, so this is the year to watch for auroras.
A primary goal in making this film was to show the auroras dance as close as possible to realtime speed, given the short time available in a short-film.
In the opening sequence auroras were accompanied by several humpback whales breaching for air, it was just an amazing experience standing there listening to the whales and watching the heavenly dancers above.
Solar Flare Visible in the Hydrogen-alpha Wavelength with Radio Telescope Emissions
This video document is the capture of an optical solar flare along with its radio reception. I'm not sure, but this merging of the radio and optical into one instrument might be a first in science.
This was an impulsive xray flare originating in active region #1875. The flare generated strong Type V solar radio emissions that my radio telescope received at 28 MHz and 21.1 MHz. The optical view is the Sun recorded in the hydrogen-alpha wavelength at 656.28 nm. My telescope is a 50 mm double stack with a narrow bandpass of .5 angstroms.
As the video begins you can hear a radio operator keying Morse code on the 28 MHz channel. As the flare gains force the terrestrial radio reception is supplanted thoroughly with solar flare emission and drowns out the Morse code until the solar pulsation subsides and the keying returns.
(NOTE : The video can be expanded to full screen by pressing the icon in the lower right corner of the player after the video starts.)
Time Lapse movie of Matterhorn by night Copyrights: Michael Steffen
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Night Sky in Ukraine - Time Lapse Copyrights: Valeriya Silant`eva and Denis Slivka
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Star trails Copyrights: Ajay Talwar
Re: Video Submissions
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 4:15 pm
by philto
October gigantic solar prominence animation
On october 9th 2013, between 10:00 and 12:00 UTC, the seeing was poor, the wind (named “Mistral” locally ) was very strong and irregular and some clouds occured from time to time. However, using a 150 mm coronograph of my personal construction and a Skynix 2.1 M camera, I could take 30 short videos that were processed in order to get out as homogeneous as possible 30 single pictures.
Then amateur astronomer Jean Pajus assembled these pics using some tips to obtain the attached 20 secondes movie.
Copyright 2013 Philippe Tosi & Jean Pajus
Re: Video Submissions
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2013 5:35 pm
by Sandgirl
Kepler Orrery III Copyrights: Daniel Fabrycky
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Re: Video Submissions
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 12:00 am
by Nitpicker
Sandgirl wrote:Kepler Orrery III Copyrights: Daniel Fabrycky
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Outstanding!
Re: Video Submissions
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:50 pm
by Sandgirl
Colors in The Night Copyrights: Stephane Vetter
Re: Video Submissions
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:05 pm
by massimor
Massimo Rodolfi presents: Stars, Clouds & Northern Lights, 8th of November 2013, from Iceland
This video is the combination of three time lapses recorded on the same night, the 8th of November 2013, at Heistheimar, Iceland, with three Canon 60da, one looking West, with a Sigma 18mm f2,8, one looking North, Canon 18mm f3,5, one looking South, Sigma 8mm f3,5. Each frame taken at 6400 iso, for a time of exposure of 15 seconds, from evening to dawn.
Copyright Massimo Rodolfi
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Re: Video Submissions
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 8:17 pm
by Sandgirl
Earthscape Image credits: NASA/ISS
"Earthscape" is a new piece of music for full-size symphony orchestra which is directly inspired by the NASA images taken on board the International Space Station. It is composed by British composer Andrew Webb-Mitchell and was recorded by the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra in the Czech Republic in 2011.
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ISON at perihelion
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 10:21 pm
by Nebulium
Hello
This an animation built from hires 1k x 1k LASCO C2 pictures downloaded from :
soho.esac.esa.int/cgi-bin/data_query
The last days of comet ISON
Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 11:45 pm
by Nebulium
Hello
This animation shows the appearance of the comet after passing perihelion
It was built from LASCO C3 1024 x 1024 pictures.
Time is 9000 x
History of Supernova Detections Copyrights: Sergey Koposov
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Bye bye ISON !
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 2:25 pm
by Nebulium
Hello
This movie was built from STEREO Ahead HI1 pictures issued during december 2013 1st to 6th period.
Copyright 2013 NASA SSC Jean PAJUS
Unfortunatly, two blanks of transmission occured.
Quicly moving "clouds" are solar corona ejections.
The remains of the comet fade out in the title area (that I unperfectly removed) and eventually disappear (magnitude around 13 ?) in Earth and Pleiades trailing artefacts at upper left corner.
