1 November 2011
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| Dr Ángel López-Sánchez | A still from the timelapse: the Milky Way | A still from the timelapse: star trails around the South Celestial Pole |
A new time-lapse video has captured the beauty of the night sky above the
Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in eastern Australia.
(See below for links for viewing.)
It was made by astronomy research fellow Dr Ángel López-Sánchez
(Australian Astronomical Observatory and Macquarie University).
"I made the video by combining about 3800 frames, each of which I had
processed individually," said Dr López-Sánchez.
"Each second in the video corresponds to 12 minutes in real time."
Dr López-Sánchez took the images between June and September
this year, at times when he was working as a duty astronomer at the Anglo-Australian
Telescope, using a Canon EOS 600D camera.
He had to contend with bad weather, wind knocking the camera over, and,
on one occasion, stubborn kangaroos that blocked his access to the camera.
But after a few months he had the material.
Dr López-Sánchez has been a keen photographer since he was
twelve but this is his first timelapse project. He now has another project
under way that will give a "behind the scenes" look at the Anglo-Australian
Telescope.
HD
resolution, MOV format, 192 MB
Large
(960 x 540) resolution, MOV format, 73 MB
More information
about the video
Dr Ángel López-Sánchez (AAO/Macquarie Uni.)
Tel: +61 2 9372 4849
alopez@aao.gov.au