Star Trail Time Lapse

[pipdoodler]

Great timelapse. Did you shoot this up north cos that looks like the aurora borealis, just above the houses to the right?

[MichelleLUA1977]

sigh.........wonderful



[brown55061]

I assume you aimed at Polaris? I can't wait to try this with my camera.

[bareszsopte]

Noise Reduction switched off? ( Schaltete aus ?) ( Diese löst die Startrails Software ?! ) - mit Blackframe !

[ruairidhgraham]

amazing dude

[rainybritania097]

how long was this filming for?

[ThisDudeThatGuy]

@rainybritania097 well 1200 pictures at 30 secs....ten hours.

[heyiceboxgirl]

Wow. How did you stack the photos together for that last picture?

[gottie29]

Great video. The shadow of tree is really nice.

[BFOprodogy]

wow i saw a shooting star at 0:48 ! amazing :)

[sgtm1775]

@BFOprodogy It could have been a plane too.

[meepgogo]

I can't find the music anywhere! Help! D:

[KCcanonflim]

how do u do that!????

[nekizmijavcanin3]

Thumbs up if you saw 6 comets flying through the air

[superlazyjim]

Did you use zeiss lens?

[dlees1367]

lovely work ; ) Can anyone tell me what type of camera lense would be suitable for this type of photography.

[aidanz2006]

@dlees1367 Anything wide will get a lot of the sky in frame, so 35mm and below. But I've taken star shots on my 50 and even my 135mm, just depends what kind of shot you want.

But yea, usually wide angle is a good choice :)

[JoTheVeteran]

That was beautiful! Good job.

[AntoMelta]

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[willamricard]

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[imegatrone]

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[Melehete]

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[NganaJHone]

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[Ondelendo]

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[bundawartini]

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[shawnaisus]

c:

[tenpieknyswiat]

Those star trails are amazing ! :)

[HamXXXa]

beautiful



[ihonda08]

WOW best time lapse i've seen so far

[sapphire8errific]

0:48 SHOOTING STAR! :D

[mariothepookster]

Very nice effect. The universe is amazing and the night sky is our space ship window to the cosmos. I sometimes shot may consecutive images on a cheap point-an-shoot camera and join them together using Windows Live Movie Maker.

[meepgogo]

WHERE CAN I FIND THIS MUSIC?!?!

[8479341441]

Id like to do this with my camera i just bought. I wanna add a vehicle in the picture though. To get this affect of the stars moving how did you capture it? let the camera just video tape? or did you expose the lens for a certain time? maybe in detail can you explain a little more

[MrL1mey]

Very nice. There was a bit of moire on the stacked image though, but it could have been the video quantizing to 360P

[prantahctosco]

Um filho de uma puta não gostou desse vídeo!

[waveofthefuture2517]

what was the interval for this? also the camera settings.

[BenaiahLLC]

good stuff

[TheSkyinmotion]

Eine sehr gelungene Aufnahme! Toll auch das Ergebnis mit den Startrails. Sehr schön finde ich den Schatten des Baumes im Schnee und Deine Nachbarn sind auch sehr aktiv ;-)

Würde mich über einen Besuch in meinem Kanal freuen. Mich faszinieren die Zeitrafferaufnahmen besonders.

Grüße

Michael

[kfouria]

Absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for making this.

[banq0o]

thank you! great vid! :)

[guromaon]

nice, where was it?

[CAESARbonds]

This earth rotation is making me dizzy

[mroy889]

that...was...fucking...amazing­!!!!



[Mrjamestw]

Nachtwolke what a fantastic video. I am doing something similar to this for my A2 photography project, could you tell me how many frames per second you used for the video?

[reinoutPC]

How did you made this video with so many photo's?

[codzomz]

your name is German for nightcloud, are you german? btw nice video

[ptlofts]

How do you focus your camera for the stars in the sky? Thank you.

[gav76uk]

Fantastic.

[takahashitoshiya]

great

[thegotenkssj5]

starting at 0:40 ontop of the houses northern lights?

[AlienshateU]

Polaris still dead center?

[Cybrchickntruckr]

That's just awesome man ;)

[intellegentz]

How did you keep Lens from fogging up.. i've done twice so far.. starting about 50 degrees, down to about 46 and I keep getting fog.

[MrJeffrey365]

in wich frequency did you make those images?

[niburu2012]

What was the interval between the shots?

[ToasterStuder]

Where do you live? 

[astronutski]

Did you use an intervalometer or *gasp* manually fire all 1,262 shots?

Excellent video and stacked shot, I know what I'm doing with my 7d this weekend :-)

[FontanaKnowledge]

This is Awesome. Thanks

[khaledsmash]

any link to the music?!

can't find it anywhere....and its not the private ryan!

[TheWwweee]

@khaledsmash tiara hymn of the fallen

[TheWwweee]

@khaledsmash sorry google it and click the first one

[way2easy2love]

one of my fav youtube videos. thank you for posting

[rosn73]

that is simply fantastic

[octavioveliz]

Gorgeous!!!

[bozhurko]

beautifull!



[waryu69]

did u turn off the NR of the dSLR for every photo?

[jewlouds]

I know what im doing this winter!

[southtexan11]

This is a great example of how the moon can affect foreground objects and their lighting. I made a mini version somewhat like this (you can check it out on my profile home screen). no moon out. turned out a bit dark. any ideas why? my settings are listed at the beginning of the video.

[renzling]

@nachtwolke hey there, nice video

could you please tell me which shutter intervall you used and how many fps you used when editing the video?

[TechnexLOL]

I'm sorry but this is just amazing!!!!

[oObadphishOo]

best stumble ever

[Tcaraway]

Hey man... I was wondering... is there a way to make the camera shoot back to back to back to back long exposures, or are you simply manually making it take a photo each time? Thanks.

[BomBamChiangMai]

มีแสงเหนือ ด้วย

[TeamKFTM]

song?



[SeaBassVamp]

Revolving Round.

Star Paths.

[totikbozu]

amazing.just amazing.all praise to Lord.

[CalebsReport]

Wonderful photography which just happens to be evidence for geocentricity. (I don't see any sun in the middle of the star path). What I see is a fixed earth, and the stars rotating around us. Thank you.

[nameless00200]

sob7anak ya rb :') , thank u this is very beautiful .

[2007zodiac]

i love this video sooo-much!!!....im new to photography,,but i want to know how to do this so much!!!....just bought a nikon-d7000!! and a 50mm 1.4G lens...please please please could you give me some settings to try and tips to use,as when i watch this you obviously know your stuff ide be most grateful...many many thanks if you could!!.

[FoxRoxURSoxOff]

Insightful. :)

[MARyBAYBEE95]

wow this is really amazing...

never seen such a thing

[cirenosibor]

That is amazing. How many pictures? How often were they taken? Every 30 seconds?

This was recorded on my birthday :)

[laura20022004]

this would be awesome as a screensaver

[milanez87]

So beautiful! Thanks! 

[hibamazhreh1]

WOW NOW... How can anyone deny God with this?! All who disagree with this I will pray for you to not be blind and to see that you do need to be saved, bc life is so much more after. I was not a believer of Jesus Christ, but I can’t say that anymore. He is the most significant part of my life and I am not schizophrenic ;)

[4Locke4]

@hibamazhreh1 Keep thinking you are right. I will keep laughing at you.

[Amarynthine]

wow so it does move!

[theone2225]

amazing job!! keep them comin!! Also what's the song? it's great!

[jobfromdayone]

Thank you for the post. it is absolutely beautiful work.

[kylemcqueen33]

how do you stack the photo's in photoshop? and which photoshop did you use?

[Nachtwolke]

@ kylemcqueen33,

I stacked them in CS2 using layers and the blendingmode lighten.

[supercooled]

@Nachtwolke You copy and pasted 1262 images in PS?

What lens did you use?

[totchikits]

@kylemcqueen33 u can also use bridge and select your photos. go to tools then photoshop then click load files into photoshop layers

[noreplyism]

@kylemcqueen33 I use a free piece of software called Startrails. Created by a German chap.

[fsant653]

Is that northeren light on the background?

[Nachtwolke]

@ fsant653,

no there are definitly no northern lihgts in the background.

[dbill27]

@Nachtwolke As someone who has lived in alaska and photographd the northern lights lots of times, those certainly look like the lights. You have to understand that it's not that hard to pick up the lights with a good camera and long exposure. Just because you didn't see anything with your eyes doesn't mean your camera didnt. Unless there was some other explanation for those lights my money is on aurora.

[oscarchilpa]

0:52 phantom???

[Nachtwolke]

@ oscarchilpa,

what do you mean with phantom? The plane at 0:56 or the darks spots in the field? The dark spots are icecrystals that formed as the lens went too cold.

[jimmyjimjim4567]

@Nachtwolke 

[Master0fDeasater]

Wow, geiles Video !

Man kann richtig sehen, wie der Himmel dunkler wird, wenn der Mond untergeht :)

[JamNJay23]

Thanks God for creating the heavens and the earth and all that is in between.

[achimreinhardt]

Super Video!

Klasse gemacht!

v.g.

Achim

[jjfans99]

Amazing video ~~~~~

Wow! You total had combined 1262 single pictures to this vid!!!

What a huge project and superb photography.

[robinmorningstar1]

That is really cool. Thanks so much for putting that together and sharing it with us all! Peace...

[theaztecsun]

thank GOD for cameras!!!!!

[IUperc]

For some reason I missed it the first few times I watched: On the horizon--are those clouds being illuminated by city lights or the aurora borealis?

[Nachtwolke]

@ IUperc,

the "clouds" are just smoke from the chimneys. ;-)

[rochavienze09]

WOW pretty amaizing, i want a good camera =/

[SANNAFABICH]

Get laid

[SirAndras]

Awesome!

[Liface]

I want this video projected on a wall in the hospital when I'm on my deathbed.

[supssteven]

this is beautiful ! where in the world is this!?

[chickeee]

the aurora have rhythm !

[theone2225]

amazing work!! Hope to see more from you!

[16BIT48KHZ]

nice video!!

[IUperc]

@Nachtwolke Ojmh of course!

[IUperc]

I'm confused by the shooting stars--usually they streak across the sky in a second or two, but these are 30 second exposures (based on reading earlier comments) and the shooting stars seem to appear across several frames (I'm assuming the video is composed of the 30 second stills played rapidly back to back). It would seem like a long streak should appear in one frame and disappear, but I must be missing something. Help?

[Grums]

@IUperc He is using a wide lens. If you use a zoom lens the trails will appear on shorter exposures.

[Nachtwolke]

@IUperc,

there are no shooting stars visible, but lots of airplanes. These are slow enough to be found on several frames.

[IUperc]

@Nachtwolke Hahaha, of course. I forgot about planes--that would explain why they would show up across several frames.

[grjhgdgfdyfgzdjyftgj]

lens? aperture? 

[Nachtwolke]

@ grjhgdgfdyfgzdjyftgj,

Sigma 12-24mm/4.5-5.6@ 12mm f/4.5, ISO 800, Canon 20d

[lezbriddon]

words dont do justice, well not the ones that youtube let me use..... just great view.

[PCGamer121]

WOW , this video is epic , good job , keep it up

[tarak6]

Fantastic work, effort..... love it. 10/10

[kaypry03]

There are many people who have captured the beauty of the stars in time, but this is the most beautiful in my opinion. Thank you for sharing it with us!

[maykay14]

i have been trying to do timelapse of stars and its dark enough where i can see them but they wont show up on my camera??

[darethehair1]

@maykay14 Without knowing what type of camera you have, I would suspect that this is a case of simply not having a high enough ISO setting to show the dim stars. Only DSLR cameras really have good enough "high ISO" and "low noise" ability to do a good job, though. With my own camera, the best I can do without too much 'noise' is 3200 ISO.

[darethehair1]

@maykay14 Without knowing what type of camera you have, I would suspect that this is a case of simply not having a high enough ISO setting to show the dim stars. Only DSLR cameras really have good enough "high ISO" and "low noise" ability to do a good job, though. With my own camera, the best I can do without too much 'noise' is 3200 ISO.

[SkyScenery]

Beautiful... :)

[bpirouz]

whats the name of this song?

[Nachtwolke]

@ bpirouz,

Hymn of the Fallen and the author is Tiara.

[ghettomasta1]

where to find this song? have no luck....

[GeneralArrow]

Love it!! More, more!

[cavinsoo]

Great work. What were you focusing on to create this sharpness? Stars, the tree or a house in the scene?

[Nachtwolke]

@ cavinsoo,

I allways focus on the stars.

[jeselmira2]

@cavinsoo  He's using a very wide lens here. At 10mm and an aperture of f/4.5 on a ASP-C sensor, he's got a hyperfocal distance around 5.58 feet, if I calculate correctly. In other words, he has a flipping ginormous depth of field, despite the fairly wide aperture. This is simply because his focal length (equivalent to c.19 mm focal length on a 35mm camera) is very short. Thus, he focuses at infinity and the bushes and everything more than 6 feet away are in good focus.

[stealth313]

THUMBS UP IF THIS JUST MADE YOUR DAY!

WOW So powerful. Never seen anything like it.

[sharongideon]

You can see it's going round and round. Nice done, i learned something new. Thanks.

[sgrazied]

I'm tryin this kind of post-pro startrailng but still i couldn't realize something like this! congrats

[V2SkiLLz0R]

Awesome!

[waterskippers]

Beautiful. It started bright and got darker. Was that the moon setting?

[pyropix]

cool!

did changing the battery had influence on the shots? cant change my battery on a tripod.

how did you work that out? how many batteries did ya used in those 10 hours?

[Nachtwolke]

@ pyropix,

at low temperatures the batteries will run out of power very soon, so I used the AC adapter made by Canon. For shorter exposure series a batterygrip will be o.k.. At 0°C the two batteries will give enough power for about 2,5 hours.

[tuszak24]

did you put it toghether in adobe premiere pro or something?

[Nachtwolke]

@ tuszak24,

I don't have the money for premiere pro, but for such a simple clip progams like VirtualDub and Magix Video deluxe silver are good enough.

[tBusket]

@Nachtwolke Do you remember what your exposure time was? 30 seconds per exposure, or 30 seconds between 1 second exposures?

[tBusket]

@tBusket What about aperture? Great video!!!

[Nachtwolke]

@ tBusket,

f/4.5

[Nachtwolke]

@ tBusket,

the exposure time was 30 seconds per image and the time between two exposures was about one second.

[Skalar300]

Wow! Genial!!!!!

[formyka]

Awesome! Thanks for the info! I will try too!

[luxunity]

awesome!

[moldvarpan]

Really cool! Just starting out doing timelapse myself, great job!

[snowypetrel]

Lovliest thing I've ever seen, was it a subliminal affect of the soundtrack?

[cosi66]

wonderfull ;o)

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[wigglychickenable]

One of the more beautiful videos I've seen on Youtube. Thanks for uploading, it's these kind of videos that makes sites like Youtube important. Great job!

[Nachtwolke]

I used a 12-24 mm Lens from Sigma for this video. It isn't the best lens because ist is relative slow.

You dont need a laptop, it is much easyer to use one of these cheap timers you can by via ebay.

[TheDantari]

Beautiful vid!

[SilentKiller805]

Very beautiful video! I am going to STARt to work on my own once we get a warm night up here in ND. I have a question though, what happened on your finalcomposite? The star trails around "6 O' clock" are kinda messed up? Do you know if this is due to Ps or video quality or to much time between shots? Thanks in advance. Keep up the good work!

[Nachtwolke]

Thaks for your comment. The distorted star trails around "6 O' clock" are an artefact of the strong compression used by YT.

[SilentKiller805]

Yeah I kinda assumed. Still too cold out to do ANYTHING! (-40F) Also, do you know how cold I could get my camera? Assuming I warm it back up slowly? I have a Canon Digital Rebel T1i. Thanks

[Nachtwolke]

-20°C/-4°F should be no real Problem. I don't know anybody who tested this camera at -40°F. May be it is not the worst idea to insulate the camera at this extreme temperatures and heat it up a littele bit with an antidewsystem like the Kendrik.

[jcmegabyte]

Very nice - well done! :-)

[asteroid42531mckenna]

Excellent stuff!

[Nachtwolke]

Thank you. "Old" because this Kamera has some small problems. The main Problem is a defective shutter release, I solved this with an external shutter release but for normal photography the camera is more or less unusable

[astrofranck]

Beautiful! I like it! Your "old" Canon 20d is very good!