Astrophotography - timelapse

[ravncat]

Hi all, I cam across this vid awhile back and thought it might interest some of you here. It's some really excellent photography so, be sure to check it out, especially if you are interested in timelapse and/or astrophotography

Black Hole Sun - Astronomic Mountain Landscape TimeLapse on Vimeo

[kcoppock]

Wow. I'm pretty sure that's the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. :O

Thanks for the link!

[Izzy]

This is absolutely awesome. I can not begin to know how this was done. The only way I know to is video it and then accordion the vid to fit a time line much faster.

[ravncat]

Originally Posted by Izzy

This is absolutely awesome. I can not begin to know how this was done. The only way I know to is video it and then accordion the vid to fit a time line much faster.

It's also posted over here - there's some notes at the end about how it was produced...
Guest post: Time-lapse Landscape Astrophotography | Nikon Rumors

to quote a little

I have taken all footage with Nikons D700 (my astro-favorite), D300, some footage with D3x just to test and just recently I added a D7000 to my setup. I like the D7000 a lot as it is super fast, lightweight, has a very good noise-to-signal behaviour and a crop which is useful for deep space astrophotography. It also has far better battery life than the D700.

Time-lapse photography itself is demanding on cameras as well as on the hardware in post processing. In fact, it is the most demanding photography I have ever done. On long sequences, one takes up to 3500 or more images a night with one body and you run into a lot of challenges: