Comet Panstarrs

[multiweb (Marc)]

Here's my comet from tonight before it disappeared in the trees on its way to the northern hemisphere. Lucky break in the clouds.

SONY NEX-5 10s exposures tracked on Polarie. Stack of 153 subs then composited on one of them for clouds and tree line.

Bigger pic here. Still to make the timelapse.

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[Octane (Humayun)]

Very painterly. Lovely work, Marc.

H

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by Octane

Very painterly. Lovely work, Marc.

H

Thanks mate.

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

That's just gorgeous!

[iceman (Mike)]

Lovely! The video is great!

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Great video

[Deeno]

Excellent!

[JohnG (John)]

Good stuff Mark , excellent video.

Cheers

[multiweb (Marc)]

Thanks a lot guys. I'm really glad I managed to get a glimpse of it with the Sydney weather. I'll have to redo the video to slow down time on the last section when I did 10s subs. I used to know how to do timewarp and frame blending in AE. I forgot. This footage is already half the original speed.

[alexch (Alex)]

Nice work, Marc!
Unusual but very cool perspective in the video with the stationary comet and moving landscape.

Cheers,
Alex

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by alexch

Nice work, Marc!
Unusual but very cool perspective in the video with the stationary comet and moving landscape.

Cheers,
Alex

Thanks Alex. I had the polarie tracking with a 200mm lens because I wanted to be able to stack the subs as well and it was easier to manage them this way. It looks a bit like a bomb dropping doesn't it?

[RB (Andrew)]

Lovely work Marc, very nice video too !

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Great video Marc

Mike

[Phil Hart]

Well done on keeping a sequence going for the video. It's not easy to leave a camera alone to do its thing when you're photographing an event like this!

[gregbradley]

That's great work Marc.

Is this a Nex 5r with the Sony time lapse app?

Greg.

[h0ughy (David)]

nice, very nice!! DID WELL WITH THE VIDEO

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Outstanding - wish I could do that.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Thanks a lot guys.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That's great work Marc.

Is this a Nex 5r with the Sony time lapse app?

Greg.

Thanks Greg. It's just a NEX-5. Not the newer model. I do all my levels and color balance in LR timelapse and Adobe Lightroom back and forth. When I'm happy with the colors and transitions I export the whole sequence to 16bit TIFFs. I stack the TIFF I want to make the stills and the comet tail. Then I use Adobe After Effect and Premiere Pro to export all the stills sequence to Vimeo.

[ourkind (Carlos)]

Very nice shot Marc and the video is excellent, great capture!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by ourkind

Very nice shot Marc and the video is excellent, great capture!

Thanks Carlos.