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Astronomy => Astrophotography => Topic started by: MarkS on Oct 11, 2011, 18:26:55

Title: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: MarkS on Oct 11, 2011, 18:26:55
18 hours compressed into 1 minute.  I hope you are able to play it - I encoded it as a DIVX.

http://www.markshelley.co.uk/webdisk/imaging_night_1oct2011.avi   (6 Mbytes)

Probably best to save the avi to your hard drive before playing it.

Mark
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: mickw on Oct 11, 2011, 18:42:40
Cool  :cheesy:

Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: Carole on Oct 11, 2011, 18:53:24
Can't play it. I get this message:
Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or a required codec might not be installed on your computer.

I've updated Windows media play and change my internet settings and it still won't play.

How do you apply a codec?

Carole
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: Mike on Oct 11, 2011, 19:00:19
Download VLC and use that. It is cross platform and will play just about any codec.
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: Fay on Oct 11, 2011, 19:31:29
Very good Mark. Can it be made slightly slower?
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: Mac on Oct 11, 2011, 20:56:56
QuoteVery good Mark. Can it be made slightly slower?

yes just use VLC and in the bottom is a x1 click on that and selec the speed you want to play it at for 4x down to .25x

Mac.
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: MarkS on Oct 11, 2011, 21:47:41

I've just downloaded VLC - it works really nicely!

Mark
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: Tony G on Oct 11, 2011, 22:26:34
Quote from: Fay on Oct 11, 2011, 19:31:29
Very good Mark. Can it be made slightly slower?

If you use the laptop that you use to do the 'Find in Red' to get to level 10, the other day, that should really slow down the video.  :lol:

Tony G
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: RobertM on Oct 11, 2011, 22:29:41
Well done Mark, what an excellent video.
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: Carole on Oct 11, 2011, 22:43:44
VLC worked fine thanks.
What a nice record of the event.

Carole
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: Mike on Oct 11, 2011, 23:52:31
Can you upload a HD version too please Mark?

Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: PhilB on Oct 12, 2011, 06:29:10
Very nice, Mark. Interesting to see how the session evolved
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: MarkS on Oct 12, 2011, 07:27:54
Quote from: Mike
Can you upload a HD version too please Mark?

A full HD version would be rather big but I'll see what I can do.
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: Fay on Oct 12, 2011, 11:17:24
My computer is really fast!!!!! I have a quick eye!!!!!! Do you think that level 10 was good then? I cannot see how anyone got to 18!!!!!!!!! :ferret:
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: The Thing on Oct 12, 2011, 11:40:19
Great video Mark, nice touch to keep taking frames while we packed away!
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: Carole on Oct 12, 2011, 16:32:56
Quote
My computer is really fast!!!!! I have a quick eye!!!!!! Do you think that level 10 was good then? I cannot see how anyone got to 18!!!!!!!!!
Fay I think you're suffering from the same problem as me.....  this belongs to a different post.
:cheesy:
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: Fay on Oct 12, 2011, 16:47:17
I did have my suspicions, but think Tony started this diversion    :police:
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: Tony G on Oct 12, 2011, 17:44:39
Quote from: Fay on Oct 12, 2011, 16:47:17
Tony started this diversion    :police:

Don't blame me, you wanted to slow the timelapse down.........By the way Fay, do you understand the concept of timelapse  :D

Tony G
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: Fay on Oct 12, 2011, 17:59:33
yes, but it was going a little bit too quick for me to get the gist........
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: MarkS on Oct 12, 2011, 18:37:38
Here's the HD version:  
http://www.markshelley.co.uk/webdisk/imaging_night_1oct2011_HD.avi   (11.5 Mbytes)
1280x720pixels but with black bars down each side because I didn't want to crop it.

As before, it's probably best to save it to your hard drive before playing it.

I've also slowed the frame rate to 10 frames/sec (but you can play it back even slower in VLC).
Watch carefully for the "rockets" coming from behind the willow tree just before dawn, leaving trails behind them.

Mark
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: Fay on Oct 12, 2011, 19:37:36
very good Mark Someone came up very close to the camera, don't remember seeing that on the quicker version
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: MarkS on Oct 12, 2011, 20:38:38

By the way - I now have one of these:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/HEAVY-GARDEN-CAPACITY-800LBS-355KG/dp/B0030CAI3E

So next time, it will be far easier to transport equipment from the car to the "imaging area".

I used it this afternoon for transporting logs up from the woods after playing with my chainsaw.

Mark
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: Mike on Oct 14, 2011, 09:26:29
Did anyone spot the two rabbits at dawn too?
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: MarkS on Oct 14, 2011, 09:35:41

After the rabbits, a dog appears also (it is next door's dog) - look just left of Mick's red stool.
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: RobertM on Oct 14, 2011, 09:50:59
Quote from: MarkS on Oct 12, 2011, 20:38:38

By the way - I now have one of these:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/HEAVY-GARDEN-CAPACITY-800LBS-355KG/dp/B0030CAI3E

So next time, it will be far easier to transport equipment from the car to the "imaging area".

I used it this afternoon for transporting logs up from the woods after playing with my chainsaw.

Mark

I'm rather relieved you didn't get this one:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41zQO26eKDL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)

Mick had a red Stool - yeeks that's not very friendly :o

Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: mickw on Oct 14, 2011, 12:25:52
Got the rabbits and the dog  :)

QuoteMick had a red Stool - yeeks that's not very friendly
It's OK the dog didn't step in it  ;)

I thought there was a cat sitting behind the stool but it must have been Julian's bag  :roll:
Title: Re: Imaging Night 1 Oct - The Video
Post by: Rocket Pooch on Oct 15, 2011, 16:24:57
Still catching up, this is very good.