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Time Lapse of Lunar Eclipse
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."
Someone needs to host this file.
Im getting 2.0kB/sec
an mpeg version is appreciated.
Bert
Someone please post up a torrent of this if you get it downloaded.
By the time this gets downloaded, it will be time for the next lunar eclipse...
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Hell, I'm a subscriber and the server was dead even when it was for subscribers-only - I was hardly getting 1 KBPS.
:-/
It would be nice if some of the others who've gotten it would provide a mirror
I got nothin'. Who is watching it right now that is tossing this guys server already? Mirror that puppy!
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Coral p2p cached version here
Zero comments, and it's already dead. Well, not completely dead. I'm getting about 1KB/minute. Thanks for at least warning us that your server wouldn't last long.
You're a brave poster, poster. *salutes*
We definitely need some more pre-emptive slashdotting features. *votes for automatic torrents*
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hmm...aren't you supposed to post movies in a non-evil format?
You've got other things to do than read Slashdot... Right? *cough cough*
Don't let them fool you. The moon is actually a giant man-made light spot to help spy satellites watch your every moves. Lunar eclipses are just a pretext made up to change the batteries.
Then again, neither coral nor mirrordot has the movie, so maybe the editors know what they are doing!
I am unable to agree more.
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
I got the 4 meg file pretty easily off of gnutella using Limewire Pro. Downloaded at 40k/sex.
I am sure there is a lot of potential here, but at least the file on gnutella has way too much compression. Couldn't really make the moon out except as it came out of eclipse as maybe 10-12 very white pixels.
I was using Windows Media Player for mac, so maybe that has something to do with it.
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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
Here it is, hopefully my connection will survie handing out the torrent. here
Downloaded it from gnutella and sharing. Video is pretty lame. A small dot is just fading in and that's about it.
I'd like to see a video of the eclipse of the server hosting the video of the eclipse. It happened so fast I doubt it would need to be sped up either. Only problem is finding a server to host it, once the server sees the video and cringes.
hope it works:
s e- 10-2004.wmv.torrent?2755E9F5E661AD80FFDBE873B7346C BC55875B38
http://tornado.ktu.lt:51121/torrents/LunarEclip
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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http://80.199.155.128:6969/torrents/LunarEclipse-1 0-2004.wmv.torrent?2755E9F5E661AD80FFDBE873B7346CB C55875B38
...like the planes taking off from the airport. Watching them all zipping off into the sky on a virtual highway is quite amazing I think.
Life is not for the lazy.
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 )
This one has seeds. Parent had 0 seeds
Totally Lame. What's the point of shoting a lunar eclipse at wide angle?
Does this look like a police helicopter?
What a waste of bandwidth. Huge video file and it looks like someone pulled a tarp off a streetlight ten blocks away. This is best the Slashdot editors could find in the slush pile?
...for those unable to setup a Torrent, but they're still not being used. :/
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
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Downloaded and watched it. Blurry, indistinct and uninteresting. A complete waste of time. Which of course makes it perfectly appropriate for Slashdot :)
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Another timelapse of the same eclipse, from 2400 miles WSW of San Francisco, is at http://www.astroday.net/LunarEclipse.html in QuickTime format... I hope my friend doesn't mind the slashdotting. Still not much in the way of telephoto or zoom, but nifty cloud patterns and stuff.
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Even rarer...the Boston Red Sox won the World Series!
(Does anyone have a BitTorrent of THAT?!?)
LunarEclipse-10-2004.wmv
Hey, they didn't encrypt the movie.
My gripe with WMV is that Microsoft's media player for OS X sucks the eclipsed moon through quantum wormholes. Real, too... hey guys, there's no blkoody reason a media player can't use native widgets. Yeh, yeh, I know Apple started it with Quicktime 4, but there's no reason to copy a bad idea even if Apple does implicitly say it's OK this time.
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Here is another mirror, for those who care to use it.
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Nice video, it'd be cooler without the eclipse and eclipse watchers distracting you from the clouds. All it needs is some Phillip Glass music (or maybe early Floyd) and a nice long loop...
Yeh...
Trippy...
The video is just a point of light moving across the sky. You can't even tell it's an eclipse, it just starts out dark and gets brighter. Seems they didn't even capture the whole eclipse. And I don't see those planes someone said they could see taking off. Video doesn't even have it's levels set properly. Skip it.
video lan client has a great codec for wmv - no problemo.
[00000226] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `WMV3'.
VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
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The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth -- by 70%
.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
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Did anyone else find the flickering red dot more interesting than the tiny view of the moon?
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.
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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The funny thing is, when you are NATed or have incoming connections filtered, you are _still_ able to make outgoing connections. If I can get 100KB/s down and up with only outgoing Bittorrent connections, perhaps there is something else if you can't.
This video is lame. It's not worthy of an effort by a geek.
My impression is that the person who shot the video accidentally recorded the eclipse and was really just wanting to make a time-lapse of the SF skyline and bridge.
For the first half of the clip I couldn't even tell where the moon was, I kept focusing on the red blinky light on the bridge.
Lame, Lame, Lame.
Full marks for the attempt though. Next time skip the wide-angle, or better yet use a long lens or a low power (20x) scope with motor drive. -- I would have done this, but I had prior plans that excluded my tending to the security of the rig.
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That is WAY BETTER than the lameass vid that prompted this article. The editors should add it to the blurb.
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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?
While this is kind of neat, I wish he'd used a better lens to focus solely on the moon (obviously adds the requirement that he track it through the sky). During parts of the eclipse, the moon was dim enough to make out different features with a 20x lens, no special filters or anything. You could see the line of light move across the face. Really pretty neat. Wish I'd recorded this, anybody do something similar?
Here is a zoomed in movie . That's probably more what people were expecting. It doesn't have the wide angle scenic view, just the moon Pretty nice.
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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Does Windows Media Player for OSX really suck, or did he forget to take the lens cap off?
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How did this even make on here. The video was horrible to look at, and just an all around waste of time
That 80% of the posts here are on mirroring the movie, how slow the downloads are, et al, instead of the actual content?
I went outside, found a good spot where it was framed *just so* with trees, set up my tripod, and started shooting every thirty seconds with my Nikon 4300.
Got about two dozen beautiful shots of the moon. Then it went away. And I was left standing in front of my apartment building next to five feet of tripod, taking pictures of urban light pollution's glow on the underside of a squillion gallons of water vapor. Yeah, real fucking impressive.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
And the Hulkster's personal favorite is when he takes a "bite outa the moon" in these lunar eclipse pictures
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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Basically it looks like old Gulf War pictures of tracers and bombs on the lighted city below. The red blinking light on the tower in the right hand portion of the frame distracts you until...
This homing beacon of light making a gentle arc across the screen brightens and becomes larger until it looks like a beautiful oversized bar that twinkles like a star.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away....
- .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:Thanks, the .wmv on ed2k works great (fast!) once you remove the space from the hash.
http://bimonscificon.mybttracker.net:6969/torrent. html?info_hash=dabe82a1e8066343fe7683eff6d8412c09d e7af2
Where is the .torrent file? I don't get it? I understand that the ed2k is 'edonkey200' but what is this strange mix of mentioning .torrent with an edonkey link? I thought that edonkey was a kazaa-like P2P app that was completely separate from bittorrent.
Just looking for an answer,
Michael
It's very lame. There's no pre-eclipse moon (although perhaps there wasn't?), and the moon itself is very tiny relative to the screen size, and not much larger than many of the blinking background lights of the city, which are in and of themselves distracting.
A tighter framing, no background lights, and a starting reference point (non-eclipsed moon) would have made it much more interesting.
That's a pretty nice picture you got there. I'm assuming you had to line them all up in photoshop afterwards?
Didn't really have to do much in the lineing up, I just kept adding the next photo on top (and the moon would already be in the right place) and then use a "difference blend".
:)
I don't really know what I'm doing so it took a while to figure out how to do that in photoshop.
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For those who just want a link (will probably keep it up for the entire day): http://technicallyincorrect.org/mirrors/LunarEclip se-10-2004-2.wmv
Roughly 50 gigs of bandwidth to burn. Use it up!
I took pictures of the eclipse through a pretty big telescope and they came out quite nicely.
I've put them up here.
It would be nice if the movie was available in quicktime format. That poor server is trying hard isnt it.
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I think we have been ripped off. That is just ordinary Calif. smog blotting out a regular moon-rise :-)
Seriously, I once visited an industrial area of China in which the smog was so bad the moon had the copper glow and dimming of an eclipse.
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And thanks for freezing your @ss off for all us nerds.
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yeah !!! kinda like having Lemmings under your remote control. ! Jeesh lets drive em all over the cliff just for kicks.... but on another note i for one was amazed last nite watching my new Roomba clean the dust bunnies out from under my bed .. :-)
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One last mirror if still needed: http://silenceisdefeat.org/~alex/videos/LunarEclip se-10-2004.wmv
I didn't do that because it's old hat, I did it last year: LunarEclipse-5-2003.avi
Or of course search Gnutella for the file, it's there, in fact looke like quite a few people have downloaded it too...
Seen though a telescope (low power one :), a full lunar eclips looks awsome, I'd recommend the experience to anybody.
Having the moon hang there as this big redish sphere, you really get to see it under a different light [bad pun alert!], you realy get to apriciate its size, its an awsome experience.
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Ohh you forgot to mention the doctoring of historical records to include the moon as well as the complete fabrication of the astrolable to highlught mans early understanding of the moons 'orbit'.
:P
Don't forget the early warnings of this spy station on the use of werewulf stories.
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Ummm, not to be a dick or anything but if you planning on photographing the nigh sky generaly you use a tripod that adjusts for earths rotation, and for the poor students, they are not to hard to build either...
The vid is pretty lame. I mean it misses the best part, the full eclips, with the moon glowing all red.
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WHile I'm certain you are kidding, ed2k is a eDonkey/eMule/Overnet shareaza compatible link format. you know, that whole P2P thing everybody has been talking about?
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The photos you've listed has the eclipse in REVERSE.
The moon passed in the shadow from the left to the right, and you are showing from right to left.
Here's my take of the eclipse as seen by people with refractor eyes.
Taken with a Sony DSC-V1 at 4x optical zoom @ 5 megapixels, and then cropped; so you're seeing exact pixels. A nice big telescope would've been nice though, sorry for the wrong take.
Pictures range from 1/60 second exposure to 10 seconds at f4.0.
Up until it's entirely Slashdot'd eclipse mosiac
I posted some compilations of the shots I got here in Ottawa. I made a couple dual-screen wallpapers, a couple triple-monitor wallpapers, and one single screen wallpaper from the images.
I have a 5x zoom on a 5 mega-pixel camera so the moon isn't too small. All the images and video shows the full-res moon. I'm hoping that next time around I'll have a telescope setup so I can get some much better closeups :)
I also dumped the pics into Director to line everything up and export a movie which is available on the site too.
http://www.dubane.com/lunareclipse2004/
Enjoy.
Aw c'mon, its less than five megs :)
http://coaxial.ca/temp/LunarEclipse-10-2004.wmv
Hosted in a for-real datacenter.
Thats really simple. Thanks for making it so easy for everyone to grab a copy.
Joseph?
I've taken down the tracker.. Please use other mirrors.
Here's a clip I took of the 2001 lunar eclipse...
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http://xlcus.com/photos/2001-01-09-totallunar/ani
You could have motion tracked a zoom image of the moon. Just cut out the 15 frames where you're realigning the tripod and motion track to get a rock solid picture.