Sliding through the night like some fluid snake, the Milky Way has a complete elegance to its appearance and motion through the sky. Taken over a period of two months at various locations this video attempts to show some of the majesty of the southern skies.
Of note is Auroral activity, ionised oxygen floating in bands and look for the earths shadow when the moon rises in one sequence.
Mike, all the sequence runs at 16 fps, so that might lead to one of the sequences feeling a little long. for 1428 frames to run at 30fps the entire clip would run for only 48 seconds. I will do some experimenting and see what I can come up with though.
I have experimented with the panning and found that 30 degrees and hour gives the right speed when going from right to left but when panning from left to right is looks a little jerky but I really think it is just a tiny bit like that and hardly noticable. I will look into using a panning rate fo 20 degrees and hour for future projects and then maybe running at a faster frame rate.
Graeme the tree was a great find and I wish I had more time there before moon rise.
Marc appreciate the PM and thanks for the suggestions.
Steve I sold my D3 so I am now back to one body (I do like Ron's comment) but would love to have two D4's with a 14-24 on each running back to back for several hours, I can think of several places where this would work well.
1. Use 24 fps minimum. That's what they use in film and it's a threshold for the brain interpreting smooth movement. If you don't have enough footage, you can slow it down a bit to fit. This works well or not depending on how much movement between frames.
2. Panning. It's better to smoothly ramp to a start or stop.
1. Use 24 fps minimum. That's what they use in film and it's a threshold for the brain interpreting smooth movement. If you don't have enough footage, you can slow it down a bit to fit. This works well or not depending on how much movement between frames.
2. Panning. It's better to smoothly ramp to a start or stop.
As others have said, music is a personal taste. Personally, I liked it
Thanks Colin for your imput. I am doing a rehash to 25fps to see how that works. I added another scene but still well short of the 2minute mark, so I need to add another night yet to make it long enough for 2 minutes. That is all good as I have another site that I think will work really.
I don't think I can ramp up or ramp down using the star lapse by Losmandy. It requires me to cut the power and restart and that will mean a frame being potentially damaged. I will investigate though.
Thanks.
imagine all of the things i could do if there was 2 of me. I would love a doppelganger 
