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Beautiful Time-Lapse of Milky Way over Lake Tahoe
- dlokshin 16y agoI love looking at photographs but have never really found photography to be something that I wanted to pick up and learn. I think this just changed. that. It's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. And love the fact that stuff like this makes the front page of HNews. I'm here for the tech discussions, but love to come across things like this. Exactly why HNews is the first webpage I visit in the morning.
- hoag 16y agoAgreed, it's so great to have a community like HN where we can just share everything from coding to photography to philosophy and everything in between. I was so excited to share it here as soon as I found it. That's not something you can say about most online communities. And yeah, I've seen some spectacular photography before, but this just took my breath away.
- Jabbles 16y agoBeautiful. I hope he can do one from somewhere in southern hemisphere, as the galactic core is really quite impressive. http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=milky+way+southern+hemisphere&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1920&bih=955 http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=milky+way+southern+hemisphe...
- gokhan 16y agohttp://timescapes.org/ http://timescapes.org/
- spdy 16y agowow, this is extremly cool :) Thanks for the link !
- rix0r 16y agoFrom looking at this time lapse I can actually get a sense of the world turning. Very impressive to watch.
- DavidSJ 16y agoIt's amazing and slightly terrifying that the bathing of light at the end of the video was due to one of those stars which just happened to be a bit closer than the others.
- mgkimsal 16y agoTook me a minute to figure out what you meant :) I'd say it's more than just a 'bit' closer though.
- georgecmu 16y agoWould have been better to link directly to the video: http://vimeo.com/14718221 http://vimeo.com/14718221
- nkassis 16y agoI've forgotten how cool the sky is at night. I'm currently in Montreal, Canada and it's got a horrible problem of light pollution.
- teamonkey 16y agoI've not been myself, but if you have a car I don't think you need to travel too far off-island before you get some clear skies. My bet would be to head up towards Mt Tremblant.
- nkassis 16y agoyeah, the montreal light bubble is pretty large, I grew up in Mont Rolland (by ste adele) and we still got some of the light pollution.
- shadowpwner 16y agoThis is beautiful, and I'm a photography buff, but how does this have anything to do with startups or hacking?
- kulpreet 16y agoI guess sometimes we get caught up sitting at our desk, hacking around and forget to appreciate the world beyond the internet?
- cryptoz 16y agoI personally always make exceptions for the cosmos. Nearly everyone here spends all their time and their money and their whole lives dedicated to machines, to computers, to glowing rectangles. It's very good to sit back - even if you're still looking at the computer - and remember what's out there.
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- hoag 16y agoFrankly, anything that causes one to give pause and ponder the universe has at least some intrinsic intellectual -- or more accurately, perhaps, philosophical -- value. And that, beyond mere tech, startups, and hacking, is one of the driving factors behind the HN community, as the reader feedback to this link clearly demonstrates.
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- robg 16y agoOn-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- edw519 16y agoAnother 100 billion reasons why Lake Tahoe is one of the most beautiful places on earth.
- abcd_f 16y agoIs it the fact that one can see the sky from it? I wonder what other reasons are like :)
- JonnieCache 16y agoI think he is counting each star as a different reason.
- djahng 16y agoNo arguments from me, or Mark Twain.
- sjclemmy 16y agothis is also good - and, dare I say, better? http://vimeo.com/4505537?pg=embed&sec=4505537 http://vimeo.com/4505537?pg=embed&sec=4505537
- abcd_f 16y agoIsn't it amazing how the whole Universe seems to be revolving around Texas? :D
- abcd_f 16y agoDe-spammed link - http://vimeo.com/14718221 http://vimeo.com/14718221
- icegreentea 16y agoI would not refer to the laughing squid as blogspam. Yes, all they do is aggregate stuff from the rest of the internet, but they tend to be really good at snatching stuff just before it goes mass viral. If you want a place that'll let you stay infront of reddit, this is it.
- DrewHintz 16y agoA friend shot a similar video a bit closer to Mono Lake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir2ISR-XjD4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir2ISR-XjD4 The clouds disappear half-way through.
- keiferski 16y agoAwesome photos. This needs some equally awesome music in the background, though. Try this: "Nevergreen" - Emancipator http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RChF0wlcWfQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RChF0wlcWfQ (timelapse video link) http://www.vimeo.com/14718221 http://www.vimeo.com/14718221
- ulf 16y agoSomehow I was expecting a candybar and really starting to wonder what the video would be about. Still, very beautiful
- mayank 16y agoIf anyone is interested in a cheap way to shoot stunning timelapses, buy yourself an old Canon Powershot off eBay, a $5 memory card writer, and download the CHDK firmware hacks for Canon cameras: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK Sadly the CHDK hacks don't work with DSLRs (yet). EDIT: I should add that the beauty of timelapse is that even an old 5MP camera can create beautiful 1080p HD videos.
- marknutter 16y agoI want this looping as my os x desktop. Anyone know how to do that?
- socksy 16y agoDownload the Vimeo movie (using one of the many sources on the internet, google finds this: http://clipnabber.com/ http://clipnabber.com/ ) set as your screensaver (make a quartz composer thing, or use an app like this: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/icons_screensavers/moviescreensaver.html http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/icons_screensavers/mov... ). In terminal, run this command: System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background > /dev/null 2>&1 Warning: completely untested.
- kapitti 16y agoThe number of shooting stars amazes me.
- AngryParsley 16y agoThose are airplanes. Shooting stars don't last long enough to leave more than one frame on time-lapses.
- kang 16y agoPardon me for my short sight, but why is this HN material?
- RevRal 16y agoI just got this incredible feeling of being on a spaceship, turning.