Time to take a break from global warming. Link to the full video follows.
Terje Sorgjerd writes:
This was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011. I had the pleasure of visiting El Teide.
Spain´s highest mountain @(3715m) is one of the best places in the world to photograph the stars and is also the location of Teide Observatories, considered to be one of the world´s best observatories.
See more videos on his website
h/t to WUWT reader “philincalifornia”
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Magnificent!
that brought out the OMG Chorus – it was freakin amazing!
Earth is Beautiful
Beautiful! This video of the Aurora by same photographer is also amazing.
You should really mention, for the benefit of the credulous, that half the images in that video are faked, particularly the “Milky Way + sunset” ones. And who knows where the original shots were really taken.
REPLY: And, at least have the integrity to show some proof for your assertions anonymously disparaging another person’s work – Anthony
Run it again, but this time mute it and play Edward Elgar’s ‘Nimrod from Enigma Variations’. Not taking anything away from the original score, but Nimrod suits this video so well.
Beautiful colors!
Spectacular use of high-speed photography…the Vimeo link for me was jerky and the sound was broken up, but after retrieving it from the Temporary Internet Files cache I was able to view it in its full glory.
Earth is indeed beautiful, abounding in its ability to live for a long time…and this mountain in the Canaries is a not-so-mute testament to the dynamic Earth.
….and there is nothing fake about that! The opening scene is a Moonset.
As an astronomer and time-lapse ‘dabbler’ I really appreciate what he has achieved. In reply to ‘Braddles’ there may be an element of foreground/landscape manipulation and if it is it would be there to add effect (and achieved beautifully IMHO).
Wow! Just, WOW! A night on El Teide is now on my things to do before I die list.
That is beautiful. Thank you for bring this to us Anthony. For the benefit of braddles, Nothing in this video is fake, it maybe that 2 files have been merged to create an effect, but it is only through photography, and the vast majority of it armature that most people get to see how magnificent our physical world really is.
Braddles says: April 18, 2011 at 11:57 pm
You should really mention, for the benefit of the credulous, that half the images in that video are faked, particularly the “Milky Way + sunset” ones. And who knows where the original shots were really taken.
REPLY: And, at least have the integrity to show some proof for your assertions anonymously disparaging another person’s work – Anthony
I didn’t see a claim that they were captured in one pass.
The many orders of magnitude brightness difference between the sunset and the Milky Way would preclude getting that in a single shot. The low-light capability of his camera is amazing.
I certainly wouldn’t call them faked, though.
Lovely video Anthony. Braddles is talking tosh. The whole point of putting telescopes on top of mountains is because the viewing of the stars is good. The rest is down to exposure control. The video is speeded up but each frame has a long shutter time. Just needs a decent camera.
Stunning – Happy Eastertide
Another refreshing Norwegian video:
http://www.youtube.com/user/JokkeSommer
Especially
Braddles says:
April 18, 2011 at 11:57 pm
It is strange how someone managed to find something negative to say about this.
Ordinary warmista strategies at work? Even in a post like this?
@Braddles
Thats’s the point it’s a specific photographic technique, where you take the earth horizon shots and then superimpose time-lapse photography of the movement of stars etc.
I don’t think anyone’s trying to pass something off as not genuine. The fact of the matter is photographing the heavens versus earthbound scenes required vastly different exposure settings due to the available light. Even a rank amateur knows this.
Thank you Anthony and welcome to the Canary Islands!
You should see in this high areas (Valle Ucanca) when in May the unique “Tajinaste rojo – Echium wildpretii” flowers, really spectacular………you are just in time in planning your trip.
Why do people such as ‘Braddles’ snipe at something so lovely. As someone who has progressed over many years from my first rudimentary Kodak ‘Box Brownie’ through to excellent digital cameras and using Photoshop as a matter of course, the excessively mean-spirited ‘Braddles’ has missed the point of photographic creativity entirely and has not realised that there is no such thing as ‘real’ photgraphy. Incidentally, my favourite camera is my 1911 half-plate Thornton and Pickard, which is a lovely piece of furniture in its own right and has the very first patented shutter, fabricated from wood, cardboard, a rubber band and string!
That abomination Adobe Flash Player won’t even entertain playing HD video on a lowly laptop like this, so I downloaded the 720P version using Firefox & Download Helper, then played it with VLC, which does it perfectly.
I’m going to watch it on the TV later which should be really stunning. My only complaint is that it runs too fast – I slowed it down to half speed to enjoy it better, but that makes the sound track weird! The Aurora is excellent, as well.
This is in a similar vein, and may be of interest:
Braddles:
Milky Way and Sunset
Can you give a time in the video?
I see quite a lot of bottom lit cloud with a bright star field but I am not sure which bit you are querying. There will be light pollution from the other islands.
There is a sunset ~0:50 but that looks fine, as does the other ~2:40. Which sunset are you worried about.
Alex
Breathtakingly beautiful…..reminds me of what an extraordinary privilege it is to have been one of the myriad living organisms that have shared – and will share – transience on this incredible little blue marble in space.
Gorgeous, especially full-screen on my 27″ iMac.
Can’t even see a hint of the Milky Way here between Boston and Worcester. . . Sigh!
Thanks for posting.
/Mr Lynn
Just upgraded my old laptop(6 years old) yesterday to an ‘HD’ one, thanks for this link, it was beautiful!