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Beautiful Time-Lapse of Milky Way over Lake Tahoe

227 points| hoag | 15 years ago |laughingsquid.com | reply

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[+] mayank|15 years ago|reply
If anyone is interested in a cheap way to shoot stunning timelapses, buy yourself an old Canon Powershot off eBay, a $5 memory card writer, and download the CHDK firmware hacks for Canon cameras: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

Sadly the CHDK hacks don't work with DSLRs (yet).

EDIT: I should add that the beauty of timelapse is that even an old 5MP camera can create beautiful 1080p HD videos.

[+] DavidSJ|15 years ago|reply
It's amazing and slightly terrifying that the bathing of light at the end of the video was due to one of those stars which just happened to be a bit closer than the others.
[+] mgkimsal|15 years ago|reply
Took me a minute to figure out what you meant :) I'd say it's more than just a 'bit' closer though.
[+] dlokshin|15 years ago|reply
I love looking at photographs but have never really found photography to be something that I wanted to pick up and learn. I think this just changed. that. It's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.

And love the fact that stuff like this makes the front page of HNews. I'm here for the tech discussions, but love to come across things like this. Exactly why HNews is the first webpage I visit in the morning.

[+] hoag|15 years ago|reply
Agreed, it's so great to have a community like HN where we can just share everything from coding to photography to philosophy and everything in between. I was so excited to share it here as soon as I found it. That's not something you can say about most online communities.

And yeah, I've seen some spectacular photography before, but this just took my breath away.

[+] abcd_f|15 years ago|reply
De-spammed link - http://vimeo.com/14718221
[+] icegreentea|15 years ago|reply
I would not refer to the laughing squid as blogspam. Yes, all they do is aggregate stuff from the rest of the internet, but they tend to be really good at snatching stuff just before it goes mass viral. If you want a place that'll let you stay infront of reddit, this is it.
[+] rix0r|15 years ago|reply
From looking at this time lapse I can actually get a sense of the world turning. Very impressive to watch.
[+] shadowpwner|15 years ago|reply
This is beautiful, and I'm a photography buff, but how does this have anything to do with startups or hacking?
[+] cryptoz|15 years ago|reply
I personally always make exceptions for the cosmos. Nearly everyone here spends all their time and their money and their whole lives dedicated to machines, to computers, to glowing rectangles.

It's very good to sit back - even if you're still looking at the computer - and remember what's out there.

[+] robg|15 years ago|reply
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[+] kulpreet|15 years ago|reply
I guess sometimes we get caught up sitting at our desk, hacking around and forget to appreciate the world beyond the internet?
[+] hoag|15 years ago|reply
Frankly, anything that causes one to give pause and ponder the universe has at least some intrinsic intellectual -- or more accurately, perhaps, philosophical -- value. And that, beyond mere tech, startups, and hacking, is one of the driving factors behind the HN community, as the reader feedback to this link clearly demonstrates.
[+] nkassis|15 years ago|reply
I've forgotten how cool the sky is at night. I'm currently in Montreal, Canada and it's got a horrible problem of light pollution.
[+] teamonkey|15 years ago|reply
I've not been myself, but if you have a car I don't think you need to travel too far off-island before you get some clear skies. My bet would be to head up towards Mt Tremblant.
[+] edw519|15 years ago|reply
Another 100 billion reasons why Lake Tahoe is one of the most beautiful places on earth.
[+] abcd_f|15 years ago|reply
Is it the fact that one can see the sky from it? I wonder what other reasons are like :)
[+] djahng|15 years ago|reply
No arguments from me, or Mark Twain.
[+] ulf|15 years ago|reply
Somehow I was expecting a candybar and really starting to wonder what the video would be about. Still, very beautiful
[+] RevRal|15 years ago|reply
I just got this incredible feeling of being on a spaceship, turning.
[+] marknutter|15 years ago|reply
I want this looping as my os x desktop. Anyone know how to do that?
[+] socksy|15 years ago|reply
Download the Vimeo movie (using one of the many sources on the internet, google finds this: http://clipnabber.com/ ) set as your screensaver (make a quartz composer thing, or use an app like this: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/icons_screensavers/mov... ).

In terminal, run this command:

  System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background > /dev/null 2>&1
Warning: completely untested.
[+] kang|15 years ago|reply
Pardon me for my short sight, but why is this HN material?
[+] kapitti|15 years ago|reply
The number of shooting stars amazes me.
[+] AngryParsley|15 years ago|reply
Those are airplanes. Shooting stars don't last long enough to leave more than one frame on time-lapses.