Bibio - Moon Time Lapse

The divine ship sails the divine sea.

A time lapse of the night sky from my garden.

Crazy to think a dusty ball of rock some 250,000 miles away can reflect the sun so brightly that it's enough to make a shadow of me on the grass.

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Science & Technology

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• bibio
• moon
• Time Lapse

[breakalime]

I was first drawn to how bright the moon is when monitoring sea turtle nesting in Trinidad. On nights with a full moon we seldom required torch light to navigate the along the beach. The only visible man-made sources of light were the lights of a power station to the north and the distant glow of several off-shore oil platforms dotted on the horizon. I recall one night we were able to watch the moon rise out of the atlantic ocean and cast a reflection along the surf. That was pretty amazing.

[mrbibio]

@breakalime Sounds epic!

[samblye1]

I was riding my bike last night and I kept thinking about how significantly bright the moon was and how it's not all that dark at night, and that it was even bright enough for shadows to appear under trees and telephone poles. Glad to know other people ponder the same thing.

[mrbibio]

@samblye1 Sometimes it saddens me to think I'll never see my native land without light pollution. Whenever I'm out camping in Wales or somewhere more rural, I realise how much I miss out on when I see all of those stars. Imagine what the skies were like before the age of electricity.

[RoofLight00]

@mrbibio Light was different then, candle and gas light threw different hues out onto the surroundings.

There's a photographer called Edwin Smith (1912-1971) who worked mainly in black and white, a book of his called 'The Romantic Eye' is really worth a look. It has that same kind of bygone age melancholy to it and this has video of yours has a similar mood. It's lovely!

[mrbibio]

@RoofLight00 Sounds interesting. Of course there was man-made light before the days of electricity, but not the sheer volume that we have now. I think orange skies could be greatly reduced if all streetlights had shades on them. Something that wasn't considered enough when putting so many streetlights in place and now it would be a massively expensive task to do that. Light pollution isn't seen as enough of a problem either, but I think people have the right to see the stars :)

[whiteshipmusic]

beautiful. i read that you and Clark had a massive recording session in Wales while he was recording his new record...have you released any of this yourself or are you planning on releasing any at all??

[SirFriendlyStranger]

Wow, dude. Is this a real track, a promo? Because I could listen to this sound loop for hours... So I very much hope that there is a full length track of this snippit :-).

[HorrisNorris]

Weird, I was staring at the moon and having the exact same thoughts last night!

[ambienteuphoria]

Truly fantastic!. 

[RoofLight00]

@mrbibio I agree!! plain Neon lighting is torturous to my eyes, can't handle strip lighting and I can never understand for the life of me why they put the damn stuff where people have to work. I'm fairly lucky to live away from large towns and cities, but I know exactly where you're coming from with the orange skies bit. I know in parts of the med they have a different approach to street lighting which is much more sympathetic. Sadly, we have to do everything on an industrial scale in the UK.