Star Spin - Earth Rotates Under Starry Sky 720p HD Composite Time Lapse

[JERZYKOWALIKFILM]

Doskonałe!

[byranmichelle]

I'm dead serious!

You only believe the things you believe because thats what they told you to believe...

Have you ever questioned the things you have been taught?

try and prove the Earth spins!

we ALL see what appears to be the sun, moon, and stars moving across thr sky

How do you prove that it isnt actually doing that?

[byranmichelle]

True.....we could look at it either way, but we should deal with reality! How can one look at it any other way?

Can we actually take an omnipotent point of view?

No!

We cannot look down on our solar system to see whats going on, pure fantasy!

Here from Earth.......thats our perspective, thats our frame of reference! From the inside looking out!

We see everything going around us!

What experiment is there to demostrate that this isn't actually happening?----> NONE!

[byranmichelle]

Food for thought:

Star trails......

You take a picture at night capturing the path of the stars at night......pointing towards the mountains.

You end up also capturing passing cars and passing planes.

You end up with light trails for the stars, the plane, and the cars.......

Whats moving?

Remember.......motion is all relative!

ANSWER: They are all moving relative to the Earth, where every single humanbeing lives!

wake up people! We have to think about what actually could be true!

[byranmichelle]

You only believe it moves because thats what they been telling us.

Its a theory!

A fact is this:

We all can see the sun rising and setting!

We can look at fossils!

But .....what do you believe about them facts!

[byranmichelle]

Um......this is not the Earth rotating, thats the stars movong relative to the Earth!

Thats the stars moving!

Earth don't move, and I beg you to prove it through an expirment!

[jcmegabyte]

I think that physically, you could look at it either way and be correct - it all just depends on your point of view! =)

[10sup10]

@byranmichelle For the sake of intelligence and basic astronomy, I hope that was a joke..

[kwazhimself]

@10sup10 thanks for that this guy makes me ill

[inkk425]

@byranmichelle the earth could be rotating...its the view of the stars that u would see rotating

[perfectperfecto]

@byranmichelle wait what? Why don't you think the Earth moves?

[MissEricaSinger]

great !

[jcmegabyte]

Glad you enjoyed the show - thanks so much for watching! =D

[PIXARTV97]

Cool

it was impressive

but what wasthat light beam at 0:58

[jcmegabyte]

The huge light increase right near the end is the very first light of dawn. Glad you enjoyed the show! =)

[SFBakstad]

very cool tl

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much! Cheers =)

[ShwangShwing]

What latitude was this filmed at? Seems somewhere north.

[jcmegabyte]

This was filmed about 40 miles North of Los Angeles, CA, at roughly 34° N :-)

[RICHMONDHILL1981]

was the strait lines airplanes?

[jcmegabyte]

Yep - most are airliners at cruise altitude, although there are a few light planes and helicopters flying through at lower altitudes as well. :-)

[leesa2466]

This is amazing, and I've never seen a star time lapse before... interesting!

[n1ckotene]

Great idea to show the star trails in your time lapse

Like it!

[jcmegabyte]

Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for the view and cool comment =)

[shanghaibenny2]

Whoa! Spectacular!

[jcmegabyte]

Making these star spin composites definitely gave me a new perspective on our surface position and planetary rotation... just the kind of stuff I like to see and do! Thanks for checking it out =)

[fatturdburger]

Great vid, this is the tunnel the shamans travel thru:)



[jcmegabyte]

Sounds like fun! Thanks for watching =)

[squirrelgecko]

I love star timelapses! this one is especially cool, since the star trails look like they're being formed live in video. I've done long exposure star trail photos and star timelapses, but never thought to combine the two. I might have to try this.

[jcmegabyte]

I'm glad you enjoyed this one :-) This technique took a long time to develop and takes a lot of work to complete each sequence - especially those 2500-frame runs! Thanks for watching and do send me a link to any star trail vids you make :-)

[TheNumberonecreedfan]

wow, sooo cool :)

[jcmegabyte]

So glad you enjoyed - thanks for the view and nice comment! =)

[TheNumberonecreedfan]

@jcmegabyte you're welcome :)

[nymphodude69]

10 OUTTA 10 !!!

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much! Cheers!  =)

[saramary33]

☼All your videos are amazing to watch! I love this one as well!☼

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much for the view and great comment! So glad oyu're enjoying my vids and music =)

[panicandfoblvr]

this is fascinating

[jcmegabyte]

Glad you enjoyed - thanks so much for watching! :-)

[Warkmen]

Wow, that just looks amazin.

How did you create the actual video? I have a Nikon D90 and would love to do something like this on my own (at least try!!). I only bought Quicktime Pro so I can create timelapse movies, but one moving image?

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks for checking this one out :-) This compositing technique took me a few months to develop, and while I'm not quite ready to release it just yet, I can say that it involves about 5 different applications (some self-written) and processing individual the time lapse frames rather than the finished video. I HAVE seen a similar "canned" effect called "video echo", but it's not quite the same as this. Anyway - I look forward to your D90 timelapses - good luck! =)

[sasquash12]

Nice! I love how it's crossed over by blinking plane lights as well :)

[jcmegabyte]

Sometimes it seems like there's more planes than stars around here! Thanks for view and great comment :-)

[bouiglob]

Even the north star isn't perfect. Its just a little bit off from the center.

[jcmegabyte]

I like how it makes that inverted smiley face over time... I have one of these star spins where two aircraft nav lights happened to flash right where the eyes would be a made a perfect one! : )

[MauricioPerez1969]

just breathtaking ty for posting.

i dont think i could duplicate such beauty on adobe AE hehehe.  and if i did i woldnt be real.

=D GBY

[jcmegabyte]

So glad you enjoyed this one - I've seen some pretty cool animations, but so far I've been hard-pressed to beat the show put on by mother nature! Thanks so much for the view and great comment! :-)

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks for the great comment - glad you enjoyed! :-)

[Lansdownekid]

I had to come back and watch this again, I always thought the stars moved in one direction? do you create the music as well? very nice 5*****

Harry

[jcmegabyte]

Isn't it amazing how differently things look when you speed them up (or slow them down)? The direction of rotation/movement really depends on where you look in the sky, and also where you are standing on the globe. It would be really trippy to see at the poles or on the equator! Yes, I do write all my own music too - thanks for the stars and kind words :-)

[FRURMELLL]

...And each of those stars have an entire solar system, with planets, maybe even aliens. Awesome. There is so much to be discovered.

[jcmegabyte]

Indeed - it's a big universe out there! :-)

[Lansdownekid]

Fascinating! :-)

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks for checking it out! =)

[ilpoetaaaa]

what is the string in 0.18?!?! it is not an ariplane! awesome job!

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks for checking it out! Our skies are very busy here over Santa Clarita... I think all the lines in this one that aren't curved with the earth's spin are aircraft navigation and landing lights, including many jet airliners and a few helicopters... That is unless some of those pesky UFOs sneaked in somehow! XD

[RocketSpecialist]

Hey jcmegabyte, could you please tell me what camera you used to record these? They look amazing!!

[jcmegabyte]

I used a Canon SX10-is for this sequence... More data in the vid details box :-)

[malpen04]

Never seen anything like this. Excellent and thanks for sharing.

[jcmegabyte]

I had seen still images like this but I think I was one of the first to make a motion sequence from night sky still photos :-) Thanks so much for watching and commenting! :-)

[ff1ght3rs]

so cool  =)

nicely done!

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much!  :-)

[arisakitsuna1998]

c-creepy........ O.O how can that be happened???? can humans touch the spiral stars???

[jcmegabyte]

This is what happens when you take over 1686 pictures of the night sky one after the other and then composite them into a moving image. It's not always so obvious how the stars move across the sky unless you do something like this to show it. :-)

[arisakitsuna1998]

still can't understand. -.-" but how??? how does this BIZARRELY happened when the LONG-LINED stars SPINNING happened??????

[jcmegabyte]

It's a software compositing process that happens after all the star photos have been taken with the camera. Although the exact details of the process are somewhat of a trade secret, there is some additional info in the StarGazer3 video description box. =)

[vasant85]

hey, what are those slanted dashed and dotted lines? do they have a bigger axis or something?

and whats the slant line towards the right end of the video. its so bright like a jet from earth .

[jcmegabyte]

All of the lines (dotted and dashed) which aren't curved in the arc of rotation are aircraft which flew through the field of view during the sequence. Sometimes I get a few bright meteors too, but I didn't see any in this particular sequence.

It's interesting to capture all the activity in the night sky over time... there's a lot going on up there!

Thanks for watching =)

[OroSk8]

Polaris expresamente fue apuntado para mostrar el centro de la rotacion en lo alto

Traduccion de la expicacion sobre el video de jcnegabyle

Gracias amigo por estos maravillos videos

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks for watching and the translation :-)

[OroSk8]

La tierra hace girar sobre su eje relativamente rapido,peroes apenas perceptible al ojo desnudo.Por la magia de fotografia de lapso de tiempo , el movimiento evidente del cielo creado por la vuelta de la tierra es registrado en estas 1686 verdaderas imagenes del cielo de una noche entera, fotografiado cada 21 segundos entonces composited en una imagen movil.

[titlex1]

nice

beauty

[jcmegabyte]

Glad you enjoyed - thanks for visiting! =)

[Himmelmondundsterne]

Wow!!

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks for checking it out!  :-)

[jjmm112]

5*!.

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much! =)

[lilisigel]

I love this ! Great work, thank you for sharing

[jcmegabyte]

Glad you enjoyed - thanks for watching! :-)

[27faraz]

amazing and pretty hard work,thnx alot for sharing..

[jcmegabyte]

These composites do indeed take a lot of time and effort, even with partial automated processing techniques. They are almost always worth it! Thanks for watching and the nice comment! =)

[32stardust]

nice job

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks! :-)

[RTHarman]

Amazing imagery !

[jcmegabyte]

Glad you liked - thanks for watching! :-)

[ahplaa]

wow, this is just phenomenal. i love it!!!

did you take all these 1686 images without changing the cameras akku???

[ahplaa]

oh, i mean "battery", not "akku"

[jcmegabyte]

I used an AC power supply for this one and left the camera out all night.

I use rechargeable batteries for many of my sequences but even new, high-capacity AA NiMH batteries only last about 5 hours under the best conditions, so AC was the only way :-)

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much!  =)

[No10kevin]

Great video

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much for watching! =)

[owensvideos]

Great video. I've watched it a few times and can't figure out how you made the composite. I can see you used a mask on the trees, but you didn't use a mask for every single star, did you? Did you turn off dark frame subtraction on your camera to prevent gaps between frames? Thanks.

[jcmegabyte]

It's a fairly complex (and proprietary - somewhat of a trade secret) process, involving several programs (some which I wrote myself) working together on the image sequence/stream.

The video is made from the original images, with no masking at all. It works best on a sequence of dark images with minimal light features (such as stars, meteors, etc.), the basic goal being to add the lightest parts of each subsequent image onto the evolving image. Yes, dark frames MUST be turned off :-)

[owensvideos]

Thanks for the reply. I'm still at a bit of a loss, but I'll start playing around with some Photoshop actions to see if I can do something like this.

[thomaswatup]

what a beautiful universe our god created

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks for watching! :-)

[devilsonlychild]

i'm the 100th person to rate.

great thought process to come up with somethin like this.

[jcmegabyte]

I do a lot of experimenting to make new and different stuff - sometimes it comes out interesting like this. :-) Thank for watching, commenting and rating! :-)

[KhmerLotus]

What a wonderful creation!

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much!  :-)

[GERMANETCHEVERRY]

Wonderful video!

Magnífico!

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much for the nice comment! :-)

[tbonepearson]

Sweet video!

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks for checking it out! :-)

[Quixpeed]

fabulous ....

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks!  =)

[sstoy10]

This is awesome! Thank you!

[jcmegabyte]

Glad you liked! Thanks for visiting =)

[dodiese09]

You are like a painter with the sky ;) that's fabulous !!

[jcmegabyte]

It IS an interesting way to paint the sky... and the earth does most of the work! XD Thanks for watching and commenting :-)

[loveyoutodeathbut]

You're full of...

surprises =)

[jcmegabyte]

Some things are good to be full of! XD

[robb21572]

Hi JC! Cool video! Your still making them! Your videos are fun to watch. I wonder how long it would take to film a big block of ice melting and evaporating? Do some slo-mo of glass shattering or bubbles popping. LOL! Hope your well! Have a good weekend. Peace!

[jcmegabyte]

Howdy! Yes, I'm definitely still at it :-) Got lots of plans and ideas for slow motion stuff... just need the time to stage and execute. The big ice block melt could take hours or days depending on temperature. The best time to do it would probably be on a 100F+ summer day at the beach, with people zooming past in the background! =)

[robb21572]

Yea that would be cool. If you could figure out to time the whole thing with the sunset in the background too! Or something like an ice cream cone on the ground melting. If you like filming in general, you should invest in a Glidecam. I own one. They are used for tracking shots in narrow locations or on rough terrain. I can give you the contact info. on where to get one. Or you can Google it also. Well keep on filming, looks like fun! :) Peace!

[Valis77]

*hypnotized*

[jcmegabyte]

This one's definitely an eye bender! Thanks for dropping by! =)

[Valis77]

anytime.

[davidafree]

gorgeousnesss love....

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much for visiting and the nice comment! :-)

[NewOrleansWoman]

this is amazing Chris ! you come up with some unique ideas !!

[jcmegabyte]

If I were at the north or south pole in winter I could catch the full 360 degree rotation for days on end - wouldn't that be cool! :-)

[Vravishing]

Amazing. I enjoyed viewing your video creation. ~*V

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much for watching and the nice comment! Glad you liked it :-)

[adivawoman]

Incredible! Fantastic! Amazing!

[jcmegabyte]

So glad you enjoyed - thanks for watching and the great comment! =)

[FEENEYSON]

That must have been don very near the north pole. Definately inside the arctic circle yeah?

[jcmegabyte]

Actually, this footage was shot from southern California. I believe that Polaris is visible all the way south to the equator in Winter, and probably a little beyond before it would be blocked by the curvature of the Earth. I'm not sure though, I've never been that far south! :-)

[bagwhanbill]

awesome guys

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks for checking it out :-)

[musumeci2008]

So beautiful, a real patience work, 10/10.

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much for watching and the nice comment! :-)

[Maymona13]

I wish I was there. Very inspiring.

[jcmegabyte]

It wasn't quite this interesting during the night but in the morning when I downloaded the images and processed them, that's when the magic happened! Now we can watch it whenever we like (full screen, HD with lights out is best) :-)

[ln4359]

While I was being operated on I went through a tunnel that looked like this except the circles were different colors, more like circular bars of color and a light at what appeared to be the end of the tunnel

[jcmegabyte]

Isn't it interesting the things you see when your brain is working under anesthesia? I've been semi-conscious going under and coming out of Sodium Pentethol before and while I only remember a couple of bits, the people who were there later told me what I was describing... weird! XD

[bushdidit2u911]

outstanding!

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks for checking it out! :-)

[Alicia7777777]

Impressive as always. 5*. thank you.

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much for visiting, Alicia!

[SabacoCoyote]

Another awesome video! Thanks for sharing!

[jcmegabyte]

My pleasure - thanks so much for the view and great comment! =D

[hermitwalker]

Fantastic!:-)

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much for watching - glad you enjoyed! =)

[thenoize]

Love it... the more u watch the better it gets!

[jcmegabyte]

I have more of these coming up, so you won't have to watch the same one over and over :-) Thanks for stopping by!

[scaleshchess]

wowzers!

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks for watching! =)

[hwdp89]

OMG, your movies are incredible, really!

Keep up the good work

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much for the visit and great comment! =)

[garyoldman4me]

amazing. i wish the night was longer. lol. 5*

[jcmegabyte]

I was thinking that, too - I would have liked to record a full 360 but I'd have to go to the poles to do that... and it's mighty chilly there!  XD Thanks for visiting! :-)

[Elleivier]

Cool video! Polaris is making a smile...

[jcmegabyte]

I noticed that too. There are a couple of dots from a passing plane that could be eyes if it were a frowning face, too!

[ninabonitaycarinosa]

Muy bonito

gracias por publicar

5*****

abrazos y besos---ARA

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much for watching and commenting  :-)

[g0tFisH]

wow thanks for the vids and the work ya put into recording it!

[jcmegabyte]

My pleasure! I really do enjoy making this stuff :-) Thanks for visiting and the great comment!

[splinkydinkydinky]

that was amazing! your techniques are so sophisticated!

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks for watching! Yes, some of my methods are a bit complex and have been under development for quite some time. Others, however, are fairly simple (sometimes, simple is better!) :-)

[paolodipreli]

bellisimo.... 5*****

ciao, paolo

[jcmegabyte]

So glad you enjoyed - thank for watching! :-)

[amarcordeon]

I appreciate so much this very suggestive video.

Excellent effects

*****

Lillo

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much for visiting and the nice comment!  =)

[xxjixyy]

man this is amazing!!! how did you capture this? you leave the cam to record the whole night?

[xxjixyy]

alright...i have read the description....wonderful!!

[jcmegabyte]

I'm glad you did! :-) I had typed it so many times I finally got wise and put all the details where they should have been - in the video details box! The whole process is really a lot of work and processing, starting with leaving the camera out all night, which I do quite a lot. Thanks for checking it out! =)

[delfinoerrante]

wonderful!!!

[jcmegabyte]

So glad you enjoyed - thanks for watching and commenting! :-)

[metrolady72]

awesome

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks! :-)

[TubOfCereal]

woooow tht was amazing !!

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much for checking it out ! =)

[pumista64]

Amazing Video!Never ceases to amaze!^-^

[SimpleThingsOfLife]

Yes amazing, thank you for posting it :-)

[jcmegabyte]

My pleasure - so glad you enjoyed! =D

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks for the great comment and view! :-)

[Outsak]

That was very cool. It's amazing how many planes are flying through.

[jcmegabyte]

There is definitely a lot of air traffic around here with 4+ major airports nearby, plus all the cross-country/international traffic higher up. In winter when the nights are longer I should see a lot more aircraft trails in these star vids. ...should be interesting!

[davidsquall351]

That Was Neat!

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks for checking it out! :-)

[canadianentropy]

Pretty amazing! I'm looking forward to seeing more like this. :)

[jcmegabyte]

I'll be working on more night sky sequences throughout the fall and winter as the nights are longer so do stay tuned and thanks for watching! :-)

[rickydepths1]

I wish I knew how to do this...its nice