Images and time lapse from The Dish

[alexch (Alex)]

Hi All,

As Phil mentioned in an earlier thread we had great fun at The Dish on Friday. The DMA reception on Saturday was great too and it had been very nice to finally meet IIS members. Congratulations to all winners!

I am still going through the 30 GB of images I shot Friday night and managed to put together a time lapse with a sound track.
Youtube kills the quality so I uploaded the 35MB MP4 file to my ISP:
http://users.on.net/~che/parkes2010.mp4
For the time lapse I used Nikon D700 and Nikkor 14-24mm lens at 15-17mm and f/2.8. For the Milky Way parts the exposure time was 10-15s at ISO 3200, the twilight - 3s at ISO 800.

I attached star trails image I made from the time lapse data. The celestial equator dissecting The Dish was a bonus

I also made a 360 degrees virtual panorama in Adobe Flash (you can pan with the mouse click and drag; zoom in and out with ctrl/shift keys):
http://users.on.net/~che/Dish.swf

I made the 360 spherical panorama from 4 images with Nikkor 10.5mm fish-eye (hood shaved), 15s, ISO1600. Stitched in PTGui.



I hope there will be more images to follow as I get to process them.

Cheers,
Alex

P.S. I will be off-line and not able to respond until Tuesday night.

[M54 (Molly)]

Spectacular!

[h0ughy (David)]

fantastic work

[Bolts_Tweed (Mark)]

Not enough superlatives available - top class work

MB

[John Hothersall]

The 360deg panorama is amazing.

JohnH.

[Tom Davis (Tom)]

Cool!! I really love the 360 image!! You should submit the 360 to APOD: bonnell@grossc.gsfc.nasa.gov

I think Jerry would love this panorama!

Tom

[DavidU (Dave)]

That is masterful.Sensational work, I love it !
APOD?

[alexch (Alex)]

Thanks everyone for the comments - I really appreciate them.

I just saw the time lapse on a laptop screen which was too bright and it looked awful and full of noise until I turned the brightness down.
It looks fine on my calibrated screens and on a large TV. So if you see too much noise then please turn the brightness down until the noise subsides to an acceptable level.

Cheers,
Alex

[PeterM]

Completely in a class of its own, outstanding doesn't say nearly enough.
Thank You for presenting this.

PeterM.

[luigi]

Excellent work Alex! Top notch!

[h0ughy (David)]

Alex, i have a 10mm lens - how did you make the 360 view?

[iceman (Mike)]

Brilliant work Alex! Inspirational!

[renormalised (Carl)]

That is trippy!!!!

Great work

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

stunningly brilliant Alex. That 360 is sensational.

Could you upload a smaller version of your animation for those of us that are connectionally challenged.

[Martin Pugh]

Great stuff....very skilled indeed.

cheers
Martin

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

.........I am bamboozzled by your abilities Alex, your grand physical stature is well matched to your imaging abilities

...I gotta finally get me a DSLR so I can try all these weird and wonderful things

Mike

[rogerg (Roger)]

Absolutely brilliant Alex.

[Liz]

Ditto on what the others have said - totally spectacular!!!!!!!!

[renormalised (Carl)]

Just thought of something...there's one place in the universe where you could see this sort of trailing naturally. It's just a pity the gravity and other nasties would crush you flat and fry you to a crisp...the surface of a pulsar!!!

Just think...Crab pulsar...33 revolutions a second. If that didn't trail the stars nothing would!!!

[Phil Hart]

cracking stuff alex.. glad you could share it with us yesterday even it does lose something via the projector. everybody was still impressed. just need that 12V adaptor so you can run the camera all night now!

Phil