I took a series of 131 long exposure photos to create this time-lapse animation of the dark sky and stars as witnessed over thirty five minutes. Nothing like standing alone in the middle of the desert at night to capture something like this that helps you to connect with the universe. You can see the occasional light from a car that drives by now and then while I was creating this photo series.
Specs
131 photos
25 second exposure per photo
17 mm
ISO 400
Canon T3i
Camera Software used Magic Lantern
Processed in Gimp and Lightroom
So simple yet so amazing! Thanks for sharing! Youve gained a follower.
Thank you @elaine54 sorry it wasn't good enough to earn a vote from you
Sorry, second day here and its quite a learning curve, lol. But I commented and followed... got 2 out of 3 right. i'll try upvoting now... i think I've done it,,,,
Not a problem, glad I could help show you the ropes
Give me another day playing and I might dare to write my introduction post...
Wow, what a gem!
Still have fond memories of me and my best friend driving into the Norwegian mountains with his telescope to get a good view of the stars with little light-pollution. Such good times :)
Happy to see that there are other astronomy-lovers here on steemit that are creating high quality content like this. Things like these that got me to work in the space sector to begin with.
Upvoted and Followed you, and hope we can have many good exchanges here on steemit, and collectively build the science and space community :)
I really appreciate that comment, its nice to find others here that enjoy the dark sky as much as I do.
A series of pictures like this makes us realise how small we are on the grand scheme of things and gives us great perspective. Well done @azfix - I really enjoyed all 131 of them!
You cant help but feel small and at the same time very interconnected to the cosmos.
Yes, we seems to be small, but we are a part of this universal show. As an astronomer, I feel that those stars are my bigger brothers.
I always wonder what we must look like to the astronomers on those distant worlds...
This is a good question. If they are like us, with somehow the same technologies, it's no problem. But if they are far more advanced, I think we have a problem, of good looking. Or better said, no so good.
Maybe they have already been/ already are here?...
Yes. I am here.
Thank you @azfix.
@greenstar You're right... we are so small.
It's absolutely depressing for me being so small
There's so much to discover, but not for me. There are probably 1000s of planets with life on it but I'll never meet an alien.
I love watching the stars at night but I always think about not being able to go there.
I'm also in this astronomy disease, sorry, passion. Very nice. To bad we can't see it in HD. Upvoted and followed.
It is sort of a sickness that gets in your blood and infects your whole body! Glad to see another person here who understands the work involved in dark sky captures. The HD Version would take forever to load and would be over 100mb as an animated gif.
Superb. Upvoted, resteemed, and promoted!
Thank you, very kind of you
I beat you to the promoted part on this, so hopefully you get a refund
Wow, that's beautiful. It's too bad you won't be able to see this in the city.
Yes the closer you get to the city the less likely you are to see the stars. Light pollution blows
Wowza! Outstanding. Upvoted and resteemed.
Thanks man, very cool of you to help this post get some more attention.
Ad suum cuique
Saving this gif! Amazing my friend.
Glad you like my time-lapse
very cool....following
Thanks, I appreciate that and the nice words.
Hello - upvote:) Good post. Also, did you know that black on yellow are the 2 colors with the strongest impact.
Thanks, I was aware of that and you can see my use of it in this post I did a while back https://steemit.com/steemit/@azfix/do-you-ever-power-down
I'm your 100th follower!
Fantastic !
Thanks man, really happy you like it
great animation, follow4follow!
Would like to see many more, Very Nice, well done
Its something I enjoy, so I plan on doing quite a bit more.
Thank you
Simply amazing
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the time-lapse
Greate shots! Nice work!
I think, if you do not mad, the gif will should move faster. I havemade last year on sunset an timelapse from something like 250 photos. If you want you can see iti here
Again, amazing work! Keep going with that!
Thank you, everyone has different taste about how fast it should move so no worries.
beautiful