ASKAP Timelapse, WA

[mbaddah (Mo)]

Alex I have probably watched every milky way time lapse video out there on the web and I would rate this as among one of the best I have ever seen.

I loved it so much I've put it on my phone to repeatedly watch Well done.

[lacad01 (Adam)]

Very impressive Alex, great sequence and music really fits in. Lucky to be able to get that close before the electronic noise embargo.

[geoffsims (Geoff)]

Phil,

That's very interesting data, very nicely collected and analysed.

How sure are you the dips are caused by the zodiacal light & milky way? I'm not really convinced, nor am I convinced scattered light from Venus would affect the sky brightness at the SCP noticeably (but I could be wrong). If the data is taken in November, it could even be scattered sunlight since it gets dark quite late - true darkness sometimes does not occur until the Sun is 20 degrees below the horizon - the time at which it becomes dark being most dependent on aerosols in the atmosphere - more aerosols, more scattering, gets dark later. Could also be compounded with some diurnal airglow variation.

If you had the time, you could do photometry on a few stars in that region to obtain a calibration, and convert those pixel intensity values to mag/arcsec^2, which would quantify how large the variations really are. It would also be useful it you stated the field of view of that 100 px squared region (I can't be bothered to work it out...!)

Anyway - enough random thoughts and ramblings...

[Martin Pugh]

Outstanding work Alex

My wife works for the dept of Innovation and Science who have been working/are associated with ASKA. They are all aware of your work and have actually confirmed that it will get played on opening night tomorrow.

well done
Martin

[zardos123 (Brad)]

Well done alex, i noticed that it is being featured and then used as a background for the ABC national news and news 24

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by alexch

Thanks! Indeed that tree shows a lot of potential

I don't think it is you, Mike. But it is likely to be your computer, graphics card or Adobe Flash that make the timelapse stutter.

Try in a different web browser.

Cheers,
Alex

Finally have our high speed internet connected at the new property and with my home computer (as opposed to my work PC) it looks spot on now Funnily enough our connection out here is much faster than it was in suburban Newcastle, which is great.

Nice work mate

Mike

[Jo41 (Jo)]

Wow! what a treat! beautiful work. I LOVE IT!!!!

[AstroJason (Jason)]

I think I have watched this about 1000 times now! Really love your work here Alex. Very inspiring stuff. You must've really enjoyed your time out there shooting this.

[Adelastro1 (Wayne England)]

Wow fantastic Alex! I just saw it on our Adelaidenow newspaper website. I'm very envious that you got up there for imaging too! Well done.

[Paul Haese]

Inspirational work. Your video sequences get better and better all the time. Between you, Phil and Colin I watch in awe. Lots of work involved and dedication to the plans. Congratulations.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Absolutely wonderful! And the music is brilliant for the purpose.

[malclocke (Malc)]

The video was on TV3 news here in NZ last night, certainly doing the rounds! Great work.

Malc