Lake Ballard Reflections

[stardust steve (Steve)]

What a great reflection of the Milky Way on the lake. Congrats on IOTW
Fantastic timelapse aswell.

[colinmlegg (Colin)]

Originally Posted by stardust steve

What a great reflection of the Milky Way on the lake. Congrats on IOTW
Fantastic timelapse aswell.

Thanks Steve. The trick to get a reflection like that is to place the camera just above the water...less than a foot in that shot. Conditions were also ideal...no wind + 1 cm layer of water. Then the sky decided to go green! Very fortunate that night

[phmsadleir (Paul)]

Congratulations, beautiful video. These time lapses give one a much better appreciation of the relative luminosity of the brightest stars in the milky way than traditional astrophoto's. And I'm pretty sure the eye can discern moving images better than static. I also liked the camera panning effect.
I think I have read somewhere before how you adjust the exposure times during a run - a hobbyists interferometer in the US? Can you link it again, please.
That meteor breaking up was awesome, I wonder if it would have been visible to the eye.
Cheers, Paul.

[Jo41 (Jo)]

beautiful pic. Tho I'm a west Aussie so I'm a bit biased lol

[colinmlegg (Colin)]

Originally Posted by phmsadleir

Congratulations, beautiful video. These time lapses give one a much better appreciation of the relative luminosity of the brightest stars in the milky way than traditional astrophoto's. And I'm pretty sure the eye can discern moving images better than static. I also liked the camera panning effect.
I think I have read somewhere before how you adjust the exposure times during a run - a hobbyists interferometer in the US? Can you link it again, please.
That meteor breaking up was awesome, I wonder if it would have been visible to the eye.
Cheers, Paul.

Thanks Paul. I reckon the meteor train would have been visible for at least an hour. Compare it to the LMC next door. That is easily visible from a dark sky. Pity I was asleep in my troopie when it happened.

Agree with your luminosity observation, especially when high altitude clouds diffuse their glow and intensify the colours.

The ramping device is a 'little bramper'. The're sold out for the time being, but other options are starting to appear. I think the Promote controller now has an option?

Originally Posted by Jo41

beautiful pic. Tho I'm a west Aussie so I'm a bit biased lol

Thanks Jo. I'm biased too. We have a really beautiful state...I hope we don't screw it up with uncontrolled development!

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

A Big CONGRATULATIONS to Colin as I just saw that this video is todays APOD. It was only a mater of time before you scored one Colin.

[troypiggo (Troy)]

APOD!!! Congrats and well deserved!!!

[Octane (Humayun)]

Congratulations.

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[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Fantastic Colin I've shared this on FB with my astro friends there, and universally you're being applauded. Well done sir.

[colinmlegg (Colin)]

Hey guys, thanks alot for your support! Pretty amazing start to the day yesterday with the Curiosity landing, then getting an APOD. I watched the landing from my hotel bed in Argentina. Gotta be one of the quickest 7 mins i've ever experienced.

Back in Santiago now without luggage! Something had to go wrong, haha.

[iceman (Mike)]

Congrats Colin, I knew it was only a matter of time!