2009 Unargural in 72 seconds

Nah, I'm a theoretician.

Why look at the sky when you can sit in the warm comfort of an office
and peer into tiny little pixels on a screen?

--
TimC

I sit in a chair, pressing small plastic rectangles with my fingers
while peering at many tiny, colored dots. -- Peter Manders

 

Yep, magic!

betty

 

If only we'd had an astronomer there on the night to set us
straight...


BTH

[applause]

betty

 

Apparently there was an asstrologer there, but he wouldn't tell me my
stars, the rotten bugger.

Bill

 

Didn't wish to investigate uranus?

 

Fine, next year I'll arrange for a moonless night and retrieve the
little Newtonian from the shed...


BTH

 

"You will make a long journey..."


BTH

 

thanks to all for your replies..

Camera is a Canon 400d on a tripod connected to a Remote timer
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=120396082812

Photos where taken at 5 sec intervals, stutter speed started at 1 to 2
sec but ended as high as 30sec in the darker scenes, this video had
about 1050 photos in it.

Post processing was done using Adobe Lightroom to colour and exposure
correct, done via batch (edit one frame, apply to all others)

then put together in Adobe Premier Pro, one pic per 2 frames with a 1
frame dissolve transition between pics to smooth it out.


Music, yup, picked because of length more than anything, a big bonus
that George disliked it thou
I am a massive Satch fan and his work seems to turn up as the
soundtrack in most of my time lapses.


Its still a massive experiment for me, cant wait to turn out stuff
like this

(veiw in HD and full screen, look out for 5:50 to about 6:10 for wow
factor)

mh

 

that was The Forgotten Part 1(part 2 is one of my all time favs)

Day of the Beach I used here


mh

 

Good stuff - my daughter thinks so, as does her posslq (insert gender
non specific title of choice) (nice bloke - he's Irish).

 

How sad of you,
I would have arrived, but I didn't want to take all the trophys
I would have taken the longest distance ( from Perth )
The oldest rider
Oldest bike
oldest combined rider and bike
best drinker
most sober after a night on the turps
most elaborate sleeping quarters
etc. etc. etc.

 

Trophy for biggest wanker.


Bill

 

<applause>

mh

 

<applause>

mh

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Ahh, jealousy is a curse....................

But for the next one, I might take along one of these for the best seating
arrangement

 

I'm having disturbing mental images of what that trophy might look
like...


BTH

 

In frosty's case, the long distance award could be used as a
multi-purpose trophy...

Bill

 

According to 'Starry Night' the most likely candidate is Rigel, which
set almost due west at 7:30pm on May 9. Sirius is brighter but didn't
set until 9:30pm, slightly south of due west. It wasn't Mercury. Rigel
is visible in the dusk sky. In fact, you can see it right now if you can
see the western horizon, just to the left of Orion's Belt.

 

and here I was thinking that it was dust on the lens....

mh

 

Then you can hand it to me personally

 

You have to earn it first.