Zodiacal Light & Milky Way Time Lapse [720p]

This timelapse movie from Stéphane Guisard shows the zodiacal light after sunset in Chile. The zodiacal light is a faint, roughly triangular, whitish glow seen in the night sky which appears to extend up from the vicinity of the sun along the zodiac (the Solar System plane).

credit: ESO / Stéphane Guisard - http://www.astrosurf.com/sguisard/

source: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/zodiacallighttimelapse/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• zodiacal light
• astrophotography
• sunset

[aimhelix]

@wk360 Yes and no. Typically these videos are made with SLR cameras. To properly expose one picture of the night sky like this (each frame) each shot would be several seconds of exposure. An SLR camera would then have some sort of a timed remote controller to take pics every 60 seconds or so and is made to shoot as many as the photographer wants. In the end, he'll have 1000's of pictures which will then have to be combined or sequenced together thus resulting in a video like this.

[onlythebridge]

gorgeous :)

[scitzz]

@wk360 It is time lapse, so it is a bunch of pics strung together. Those pics are long exposure shots, which allows the film, or ccd, to collect more light than your eyes do. Still, in parts of Chile, especially where the observatory is located, it is so dark that you see ALMOST as much as you do here. These are probably only 20 second or so exposures...PM me and I can send you a link to a dark sky chart to help you find dark skies close to you...

[wk360]

omg! can anyone explain me something? do they use some special camera that catch more light and the effect is that you can se light invisible for your eyes? or are all these stars so clearly visible without any special camcorders and stuff like that ? THIS IS BEAUTIFUL! I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT SKY BY MY OWN EYES!

[tbalsillie]

What a view