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Time Lapse Video of the VLT In Chile

Posted by timothy on from the industrial-light-and-magic dept.

schwit1 writes with a video "captured by Stephane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile's Atacama Desert. And it might make you cry. What makes this time lapse particularly amazing — because we've all seen plenty of time lapse videos of the night sky — is the four telescopes in the foreground. Watching these instruments work against a black background would be endlessly fascinating on its own. Unfortunately you won't be able to pay them too much attention. Because damn, what a sky."

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  1. Why not link to the original video? by Lord+Byron+II · · Score: 5, Informative

    Instead of sending everyone to another blog to view the postage stamp sized video in an embedded player, here's the link to the original video at YouTube:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFpeM3fxJoQ

    Nice use of HDR in the video. How did they do that?