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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cross-platform, please? by kanweg · 2004-10-30 22:04 · Score: 5, Insightful

an mpeg version is appreciated.

Bert
BitTorrent? by pclinger · 2004-10-30 22:05 · Score: 3

Someone please post up a torrent of this if you get it downloaded.

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1. Re:BitTorrent? by paganizer · 2004-10-31 00:44 · 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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Slow by cuteseal · 2004-10-30 22:07 · Score: 3, Funny

By the time this gets downloaded, it will be time for the next lunar eclipse...

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People People... Coral Cache to the rescue. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-30 22:09 · Score: 4, Informative

Nothing works better & faster.

Coral p2p cached version here
wmv by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-30 22:12 · Score: 4, Funny

hmm...aren't you supposed to post movies in a non-evil format?
1. Re:wmv by v1 · 2004-10-31 02:11 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  WMV3 codec is M$ proprietary, and is ONLY found in the Windows Media Player FOR WINDOWS. Not even the Macintosh release of WMP has this codec. You can also forget VLC, Mplayer, QuickTime, and any other player for that matter. WMP for Windows ONLY.
  
  It never ceases to amaze me how many ppl post videos encoded with this codec, because there are so many ppl out there that have absolutely NO way to view it.
  
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To all those complaining about speed by Smerity · 2004-10-30 22:17 · Score: 3, Insightful

Really, 1 Kbps is not that bad considering it's only a 4 meg file, pretend you're on 56k, or hell, just go outside!
You've got other things to do than read Slashdot... Right? *cough cough*
The moon is a myth! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-30 22:18 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
Coral isn't even working, nor mirrordot! by notthepainter · 2004-10-30 22:20 · 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!
Re:Need more speed scotty!! by metlin · 2004-10-30 22:21 · 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!
Re:Need more speed scotty!! by mrokkam · 2004-10-30 22:29 · Score: 5, Informative

On my univ bandwidth:) The Link Enjoy Mohan Yeah...I am up too:p
Dare I say it... there's a mirror here... by indie1982 · 2004-10-30 22:29 · 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 · 2004-10-30 23:37 · 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).
Torrent by alwsn · 2004-10-30 22:31 · Score: 3, Informative

Here it is, hopefully my connection will survie handing out the torrent. here
1. Re:Torrent by SelFix · 2004-10-30 22:49 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  another one too
  LunarEclipse-10-2004.wmv
Hmm not that impressive. by nekrecart · 2004-10-30 22:33 · 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.
1. 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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Here's a torrent by jerde · 2004-10-30 22:40 · 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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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
Re:Try Gnutella! by SharpFang · 2004-10-30 22:59 · Score: 4, Funny

Downloaded at 40k/sex.

They call it "Freudian typo".

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in case you can't get the vid by LiquidMind · 2004-10-30 23:18 · Score: 5, Funny

here's a summary

......oooooo0000000OOOOOOO

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Server is down already by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-30 23:22 · Score: 5, Funny

So heres a summary ......oooooo0000000OOOOOOO0000000Ooooooo......
Good concept! by Shag · 2004-10-30 23:23 · Score: 3, Insightful

Kinda need more zoom (500mm is good for most kinds of eclipses, I think), though. A nice telescope with a guider on it would work wonders for this sort of thing.
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... by rirugrat · 2004-10-30 23:30 · Score: 3, Funny

Start with a relatively rare occurrence, the complete lunar eclipse from last Wednesday.
Even rarer...the Boston Red Sox won the World Series!
(Does anyone have a BitTorrent of THAT?!?)
The moon, eh? :-) by Compact+Dick · 2004-10-30 23:57 · Score: 5, Funny

The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth -- by 70%

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 .. 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.

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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1. Re:The moon, eh? :-) by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-31 03:45 · Score: 3, Funny
  I simply refuse to put up with limp, Satanic, fellow-travelling shit like this piece of sub-human garbage in your pewling, idiotic post[?]:
  
  "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!) "
  
  Let's count the errors, shall we?
  
  The Earth does not "rotate". If it did, we would all be blown around ten ways to Tuesday by the winds created.
  
  If the Earth did rotate, then one would expect to see tornadoes in the area at the centre of rotation. This would imply that Kansas is the centre of the Earth, a thought pleasing to my personal sympathies, but contradicted by scripture. There has never been a tornado in Jerusalem
  
  Joshua asked Our Lord to stop the Sun, you ignorant asshole, not the Earth. What possible good would it have done to stop the Earth from moving?
  
  Your blasphemous statement that the Moon "reflects" light from the Sun directly contradicts Genesis 3:16, in which it is made perfectly clear that "he created the moon, that the slimy crawling things by night might see". Which part of "he created", don't you understand? Your pathetic advocacy of the fraudulent theory (and it IS a THEORY, not some bourgeois, East-Coast elitist idea of a "fact") is sickening.
  
  Your evil whinings are, quite frankly, tantamount to liberalism.
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.
Re:.torrent by ceedee99uk · 2004-10-31 00:59 · 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?
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
Re:Wide angle lens? by elgatozorbas · 2004-10-31 02:32 · Score: 4, Insightful

It would have been much better if he'd used a zoom lens, unless I'm missing something?

While I agree that the movie could have been better, there is a simple explanation for the lens used (apart from the fact that it may have been the only one available): using a zoom lens would require you to move the camera. While this is a burden to do at night (instead of just letting the camera run on its own), it would also be far from trivial to follow a smooth curve, especially when you don't know exactly where the moon is going. In other words, a zoom lens would have resulted in a very sharp, but very shaky movie. The guy gave it a good shot, next time may be better...

Z
Re:bittorrent or edonkey? by Mardak · 2004-10-31 03:33 · 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