Time Lapse of Lunar Eclipse

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Posted by michael on Saturday October 30, 2004 @10:00PM 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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Re:.torrent by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-30 22:25 · Score: 0, Interesting

Except for the problem with only offering torrents is for people that are eitehr stuck on a university network where they watch(and I don't want to have to talk to IT and attend a copyright/bandwidth seminar, doesn't mater if I was using a P2P app (and yes their tracking software does identify that it is BitTorrent, and if it is another P2P (IE Kazaa or whatever) the BW is 3KB/s for the entire campus), I worked last semester answering phones and having to explain to about 50% of the callers why their internet was shutoff and what they would have to do to get it back on(of which about 50% of that were copyright violations, the other 50% were virus/worm/spam related) or if you are stuck behind a firewall on an ISP which is blocking torrents or other P2P apps. (I have a friend whose problem is that with the internet into their apartment, it is a wireless link by an ISP to the complex, and then the ISP has ethernet jacks in their rooms(connected to a managed switch so they can turn them on and off). They are all masq'd and he says nothing is working).
Re:wmv by Hadlock · 2004-10-30 22:28 · Score: 2, Interesting

video lan client has a great codec for wmv - no problemo. it's what the free MS video editing software saves as for a file anyways. either way, an mp4 format would have been nice.

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Re:People People... Coral Cache to the rescue. by baryon351 · 2004-10-30 22:31 · Score: 2, Interesting

Not to be negative, but I'm going to be negative anyway. Wtf is with these coral cache links? has ANYONE managed to get them working quicker than the original site? I'm getting 2.5kb/sec from the original article poster's server while this cache crap is lucky to spike to 500bytes/second.

Is it meant to be a serious caching service? Or are we just slashdotting some poor moron's dsl line here?
Re:here is the torrent by SelFix · 2004-10-30 22:41 · Score: 2, Interesting

better link -in html :)
http://tornado.ktu.lt:51121/torrents/LunarEclipse- 10-2004.wmv.torrent?2755E9F5E661AD80FFDBE873B7346C BC55875B38
Captured in a single image... by Animaether · 2004-10-30 22:45 · Score: 5, Interesting

For those not willing to wait for the movie download, or don't care for a movie, or are waiting for an MPG format version or whatever...

Lunar Eclipse caught in a single image
( Thanks to cozzy for the URL )
1. Re:Captured in a single image... by Wiwi+Jumbo · 2004-10-31 03:38 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  That is truly awesome!!
  
  This http://www.deviantart.com/view/11794545/ (As I've pimped in another post) is what I was able to take from my balcony in Ottawa.
  
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2. Re:Captured in a single image... by DarkBlackFox · 2004-10-31 04:19 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Here's a few I took through my 8" reflector scope. Not as good as I'd have liked, but for a little crappy point n' shoot 1.3mp camera, it wasn't bad. Funny thin was a real nice 5mp camera I had ordered the previous week came in the day after the eclipse. If I had that, they'd have been much more impressive. (Apologies for the Earthlink'ed space, but my main server has very limited bandwith.. if anyone feels like mirroring please do.)
  
  Moon 1
  Moon 2
  Moon 3 (my personal favorite)
  Moon 4
  Moon 5
  Moon 6
  Moon 7
openssl base64 -e LunarEclipse-10-2004.torrent by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-30 23:17 · Score: 2, Interesting

Here is the torrent, base64-encoded. Paste it into a file, and do: sed -e 's/ //g' < file > other_file && openssl base64 -d < other_file > LunarEclipse-10-2004.torrent ZDg6YW5ub3VuY2U0MD podHRwOi8vdHJhY2tlci55b3VjZWZmLmNvbTo2OTY5L2Fu bm 91bmNlNDppbmZvZDY6bGVuZ3RoaTQ3MzE0MjJlNDpuYW1lMjQ6 THVuYXJFY2xp cHNlLTEwLTIwMDQud212MTI6cGllY2UgbGVu Z3RoaTI2MjE0NGU2OnBpZWNlczM4 MDpJv+V7R50e/Q5hT95C wjwhnckAcqinbIgbCqlCjYR4wwMUuuB4RYq7AWWFwfD4 0PC3 SQY5kISxd27sQd6OblUBgIbNcDd8qUCZ3rIu1LFkORhQ2PGXB2 gHnLRyrho4 CkCJ1HyliS7r4SZIrLz4302TIIP5Ncg3Rjb/bw lbNgAMRO5+DM8+rDMcpwTIfU1f NQLBYgGFdSgp/9p22CJla2 duORmBISnRjVFzK4uDXSTdxubJpA4exksAEK2v7bUd QHoNc4 iCa++z+/UIKBYjum5slP2Vjc481IWR34ujJvc2lEI+uBDbXdBN tp7KK9/w VySv8NeF3nW9kfc9cJxxP7zAPr58dOoM+bkQRCG/ tK5QY1HomNZeBTw3IJD/CJG8 D069mZtDh68RzCXYn3dosvll Hlz7CA9Zw0vHCtWiFb2DqyopcYIb4NgzYwBbxoOw h58M4A6E qoXqbsIqBba9npv83avdcbDiAcPMP1YCZyy7DQsZu9lxS8J3uE zyTWVl
Re:Hmm not that impressive. by Lusa · 2004-10-30 23:17 · Score: 2, Interesting

Should give him some credit. He did the work, froze his butt off (probably in a car though) and it was baseball night! I think he was trying for more of a moon rising over the bridge artistic shot than showing off the eclipse properly but it turned out too dark which is probably due to inexperience.

I'd have tried that with a digital camera using interval shots and a graduated filter to allow better exposure of the ground and maybe keep some of the moons featues visible rather than making it look like a torch pen on the end of a fishing rod.

Still, some credit is due for trying.
Interesting, but not great. *Here* is great. by wherley · 2004-10-31 00:09 · Score: 4, Interesting

This shot really makes you appreciate the lunar surface and appearance during eclipse.

And this timelapse video shows what can be done in that arena.
Wide angle lens? by Underholdning · 2004-10-31 00:13 · Score: 2, Interesting

Why use a 30mm wide angle lens when a 300mm zoom would've been more appropriate?
I've seen the movie, and the other comments are correct - it's just a dot that appears and fades away.
It would have been much better if he'd used a zoom lens, unless I'm missing something?

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WOAH! by Sinner · 2004-10-31 00:52 · Score: 2, Interesting

That is WAY BETTER than the lameass vid that prompted this article. The editors should add it to the blurb.

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Some "GOOD" Eclipse pictures ... by Hulkster · 2004-10-31 01:57 · Score: 3, Interesting

I give the submitter an A for effort, although I prefer the the collection of pictures from space.com and the Astronomy Picture of the Day had a red moon triple and a pumpkin moon that were pretty cool.
And the Hulkster's personal favorite is when he takes a "bite outa the moon" in these lunar eclipse pictures
My contribution to the movies by LaserBeams · 2004-10-31 02:05 · Score: 2, Interesting

Last lunar eclipse I took some zoom photos with a makeshift camera/binocular setup, and this time decided to do a sky track, like the original poster. Using thoroughly unimpressive equipment (a 1.3 MP Canon A10 digital camera and tripod) I took 60-some exposures once a minute over the transition from partial to total eclipse.

Here's a short video of my result - it's not as smooth as the original poster's, but it shows the moon a bit better - however please don't expect miracles:

90KB, 572x600, DivX, a few seconds long.

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Re:Hmm not that impressive. by Wiwi+Jumbo · 2004-10-31 03:30 · Score: 4, Interesting

While it might not be that great, I took this picture(s) on my balcony in Ottawa. You might like it more.

http://www.deviantart.com/view/11794545/

Set the camera up on a tripod and let it do all the work. :)

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but I want more then they offer"
eclipse through a telescope by SKPhoton · 2004-10-31 04:26 · Score: 2, Interesting

I took pictures of the eclipse through a pretty big telescope and they came out quite nicely.
I've put them up here.