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Time Lapse of Lunar Eclipse

Posted by michael on from the shadows-linger dept.

MufasaZX writes "Start with a relatively rare occurrence, the complete lunar eclipse from last Wednesday. Next add the amazingly rare, a perfectly clear fog free night in San Francisco, as viewed from the cliffs overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. Then I set up my trusty Sony MiniDV camcorder and wide angle lens on a tripod and proceeded to freeze my butt off for 2 hours. Dump the video into Premier, accelerate it 200x to just 37 seconds, and the resulting video is IMHO simply stunning. Until my web server gets crushed you can download it here, but after that please use your Gnutella client of choice and search for LunarEclipse-10-2004.wmv."

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  1. People People... Coral Cache to the rescue. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nothing works better & faster.

    Coral p2p cached version here

    1. Re:People People... Coral Cache to the rescue. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Yeah.. a whole 1.7kb/s. :P

    2. Re:People People... Coral Cache to the rescue. by stu72 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Magnet (Gnutella2) link:

      magnet:?xt=urn:bitprint:V2N3APWWYTW36GG5ERDTQC24RD WXLI4F.LMAMHDQEYZ43V3PXC23UJTWAQ4FIRN7COL2VFHA&dn= LunarEclipse-10-2004.wmv&xs=http%3A//24.85.233.123 %3A6346/uri-res/N2R%3Furn%3Abitprint%3AV2N3APWWYTW 36GG5ERDTQC24RDWXLI4F.LMAMHDQEYZ43V3PXC23UJTWAQ4FI RN7COL2VFHA

      Edonkey 2000:

      ed2k://|file|LunarEclipse-10-2004.wmv|4731422|1840 7e7807f0f841ff0e6be84a397416|/

  2. Coral isn't even working, nor mirrordot! by notthepainter · · Score: 3, Informative
    You know, this is getting really annoying. We have the technology available to prevent slashdotting sites yet the editors insist on not using it.

    Then again, neither coral nor mirrordot has the movie, so maybe the editors know what they are doing!

  3. Re:Need more speed scotty!! by metlin · · Score: 4, Informative

    ARGHHHHHHHH!

    Not my fucking day.

    http://www.metlin.org/temp_dir/LunarEclipse-10-200 4.wmv

    *YES I PREVIEWED IT*

    I think my servers have some sense of the future, they don't want to BURNNNN.

    And man, I wish Slashdot didn't have the bloody two minute posting limit.

    Bzzt!

  4. Re:Need more speed scotty!! by mrokkam · · Score: 5, Informative

    On my univ bandwidth:) The Link Enjoy Mohan Yeah...I am up too:p

  5. Dare I say it... there's a mirror here... by indie1982 · · Score: 5, Informative
    http://lenore.newmeja.com/LunarEclipse-10-2004.wmv

    I'll be taking the file down at the end of the day becuase it's a server at work and i'll need the bandwidth back tomorrow ;o)

    Good luck!

    Rich

    1. Re:Dare I say it... there's a mirror here... by morbider · · Score: 3, Informative

      LunarEclipse.mp4 can now be downloaded (2.5Mb). Original WMV converted to Apple Quicktime MP4 format via AVI. Academic hosted server, so bandwidth should be okay. Will have to remove tomorrow (Monday 1st Nov, 1600GMT).

  6. Torrent by alwsn · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here it is, hopefully my connection will survie handing out the torrent. here

    1. Re:Torrent by SelFix · · Score: 3, Informative

      another one too
      LunarEclipse-10-2004.wmv

  7. Hmm not that impressive. by nekrecart · · Score: 5, Informative

    Downloaded it from gnutella and sharing. Video is pretty lame. A small dot is just fading in and that's about it.

  8. Here's a torrent by jerde · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's a torrent of the movie.

    I hope it gets seeded soon, I'm not sure how long I can keep my copy open.

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  9. RTFM... there's a time-lapse feature for TRV17 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Care to read the manual next time, instead of having to accelerate it in Premiere?

  10. Another HTTP Mirror by tidewaterblues · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here is another mirror, for those who care to use it.

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    1. Re:Another HTTP Mirror by tidewaterblues · · Score: 2, Informative

      Oh, and one of that QT movie too.

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  11. Re:wmv by argent · · Score: 2, Informative

    video lan client has a great codec for wmv

    Yeh? Care to tell my copy of VLC where the -ing hell it is?

    main: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `WMV3'.
    VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.

    (and WM Player on my Mac dropped all but about 12 random frames... yeh, it's only a G4/466 but sheesh, it plays DVDs full screen without complaining...)

  12. Re:BitTorrent? by paganizer · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've not only put up a torrent, i've posted it in non-evil formats.
    tracker at (until it starts smoking) http://66.38.8.41:6969
    ED2K:
    ed2k://|file|LunarE clipse-10-2004_DivX.avi|2077802 |8605d30fc200576a8dde819ee6d936c0|/
    ed2k://|file| LunarEclipse-10-2004.mpg|5391332|533d 94a75a2e807dccd56a91d40b26cc|/
    ed2k://|file|Lunar Eclipse-10-2004.mov|6930342|c712 88ac9c70e7e02b9bb7dc8bc08b44|/
    ed2k://|file|Lunar Eclipse-10-2004.wmv|4731422|1840 7e7807f0f841ff0e6be84a397416|/

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  13. Re:.torrent by ceedee99uk · · Score: 3, Informative

    The BitTorrent protocol was specifically *designed* for the rapid, near-simultaneous distribution of popular files to a large number of users -- who are then able to share them via other methods successfully avoiding the usual /. effect.
    Surely that makes sense regardless of the efforts of some university networks and ISPs to prevent the use of torrents?

  14. Don't download this! by nimid · · Score: 2, Informative
    It's a waste of 4MB of bandwidth!

    The video is so poor, the first time you watch it you stare at a blinking light to the centre right of the screen thinking it's the moon (blinking as an artifact of the timelapse).

    Check out the pic someone posted above. It's far more interesting. Link from poster above for convenience: http://www.digitalastro.net/20041027_Lunar_Eclipse _time-lapse.jpg

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  15. Re:The moon is a myth! by Draknek · · Score: 1, Informative

    The joke's on you; you got modded offtopic.

    (Go on, mod me informative. You know you want to.)

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  16. WMV alternative? by MobyDisk · · Score: 2, Informative
    The problem is that non-evil formats are either limited or not supported:
    • .MOV - Evil: Proprietary and not editable by free software;
    • .AVI - Bad; Not-evil, but the format is getting old and limiting. (Support for VBR audio is a bad hack and causes problems)
    • .WMV - Evil; A patent-encumbered replacement for AVI
    • .MPG - Bad; MPEG-1 is old and inefficient
    • .MP2 - Evil; MPEG-2 is patent encumbered
    • .MP4 - Good; Standard, less patent encumbered; Limited to MP4+AAC audio (but that isn't too bad); But nobody seems to use this format!
    We either need to:
    1. Adopt .MP4 and use it
    2. Create a non-patent-encumbered .WMV-like format.
  17. Re:cross-platform, please? by big_groo · · Score: 1, Informative

    I have mplayer installed along with the firefox plugin for it - I can play the clip in either the browser, or on its own. You probably need to go get the full codec bundle, and recompile.

  18. torrent available here by blackburnrovers · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://bimonscificon.mybttracker.net:6969/torrent. html?info_hash=dabe82a1e8066343fe7683eff6d8412c09d e7af2

  19. Re:cross-platform, please? by big_groo · · Score: 1, Informative
    I don't think I want to go CVS just to view this one file.

    You don't have to. You *do* have to download this package, extract to /usr/local/lib/codecs/ and then rebuild mplayer as usual. Read this.

  20. Re:bittorrent or edonkey? by Mardak · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've not only put up a torrent, i've posted it in non-evil formats. tracker at (until it starts smoking) http://66.38.8.41:6969

    Linked for the confused.

    http://66.38.8.41:6969/torrents/LunarEclipse-10-20 04.mov.torrent?1B109C9EC2ACA57F8F49D2474C45D103DF3 A88FD http://66.38.8.41:6969/torrents/preview_v02.avi.to rrent?A70DF0962EE22578CA7E71C55E5D7F5076ABE197 http://66.38.8.41:6969/torrents/LunarEclipse-10-20 04.mpg.torrent?7F5313DCB39A9D6732CC2CEE0EBA97B190D D93A2 http://66.38.8.41:6969/torrents/LunarEclipse-10-20 04.wmv.torrent?2755E9F5E661AD80FFDBE873B7346CBC558 75B38 http://66.38.8.41:6969/torrents/LunarEclipse-10-20 04_DivX.avi.torrent?C7457346EACB0711314C72F47A0ABB FDB74F77BA

  21. Re:wmv by wdd1040 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Worked fine in Mplayer with the codec pack on SUSE 9.1.

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