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
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?
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.
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
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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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 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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45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2
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......
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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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: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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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