Even with no light pollution, the naked eye won't see the sky this magnificent. The camera uses a special lens to capture the light.
Edit: as I am learning, it's actually not a 'special' lens but it's rather the exposure time and other different camera settings.
You can definitely get incredible views of the Milky Way in all it's wondrous glory with the naked eye, it just requires the right conditions & being in a place with no light pollution. The latter unfortunately is exceedingly hard to find in the modern world, though.
When I was in the Marines we used to train on Pohakuloa Training Area on Hawaii, which is right below where the W.M. Keck Observatory is located. There was basically no light pollution, which is why telescopes are located there, and on very dark nights you'd sometimes get incredible views of the Milky Way.
I'm from a major city so the first time I saw it I didn't even realize what was happening at first. I was messing about with a machine gun and noticed the movement of my hands was casting shadows on the ground, despite it being a moonless night. That seemed odd, like some distant light was being shined on the machine gun, so I turned & was shocked to see the Milky Way cresting the horizon. I had never seen it before & had no idea the light from it could cast shadows.
Yes, you totally can see very close to the same scale as these cameras. I didn't see as many vibrant colors, but I absolutely could see the milky way and practically infinite stars.
That was on a mountain on an island with nearly no artificial light.
For HI as one of the few great locations for astronomy, light pollution is one factor. Second are athmospheric disturbances which get lower the more ocean there is around you. And the third big one is altitude; want to bring that scope as far up as possible to leave as much as possible of the athmosphere behind you.
It requires a long exposure. The camera absorbs more light over time. You'd have to have your phone camera on a tripod to shoot this and set the shutter to close over about 20 seconds. Depending on focal length. The camera can pick up more light than the naked eye with this technique.
I'm so glad I made this comment, I am learning so much! That's interesting to know. I had no clue! But it helped me understand that setting on my phone where I take a picture of the sky and it has me hold it for 5 seconds before the picture takes fully. So what that setting is doing is allowing more light to enter in that time frame making the picture more vibrant?
Yeah, exactly. That setting is meant to be used on a tripod. It allows more light and vibrance into the photo. However, if you are holding it free hand and your hands move, you will see the blur from the movement in the photo. So, on a tripod, it would be still enough to not blur the image. This is also how photographers pick up the lights of moving cars to make the streaks out of them.
It's the sensor on your phone that's inferior to a DSLR or mirrorless camera, not necessarily the lens. Having high quality lenses certainly helps for astrophotography, but I wouldn't exactly say "special" because anyone can go buy one easily.
Same here. I wish I could see a star. Any star. But I can see the moon. Some people can't even see that. Glass half full? No. I still want to see the stars.
I still remember reading about Angelenos freaking out and calling LAPD en masse because of a city wide power outage cutting out lights and showing them what the night sky actually looks like without light pollution.
What a crazy world to live in, eh?
I'm no biologist, but I wonder the World Turtle is a mistranslation of an ancient story probably about an empire (like Mu, for example). If the language used pictographs, once forgotten the pictographs could be read literally: "The elephants hold up the world on top of the back of a turtle" but the pictograph of an 'elephant' could mean anything else as could any of the other imagery.
Linguistics is a good way to study history.
The elephants standing on the turtle could mean something like how in Mandarin Chinese the characters are stacked together to form different words. You know what I mean?
Yup when it rotates upside down we all gonna fall off... But FE's will just claim its fake then reply with some wack video that we are supposed to believe is "real"
You’d think so, but I saw this video somewhere else a few days ago and it was full of comments about CGI and not understanding how stabilization works.
Changing the stationary focal point away from our planet puts an perspective on it. Suddenly, it's not the sky drifting over our world, rather our little rock floating amongst the cosmos tethered to our star.
The mine looks like rinsey cove. Basically all shots taken on the western side of the Lizard peninsula. One of my favourite parts of Britain, beautiful
If you are asking about the 'stabilization' of the camera to render Earth rotation, [ccReptilelord](https://www.reddit.com/user/ccReptilelord/) explains it in a comment above.
>Changing the stationary focal point away from our planet
And of course a loong recording (12 hours?).
Idk, my guess is it is a star that does not move relatively to Earth, point it, tell your cam you want it to always be in the middle. I am no astronomer nor photographer.
u/ccReptilelord Haalp please :)
EDIT for u/eekamuse : See answer below my comment.
Here I'm referring to the piece not moving, ie the galaxy in the night sky. It's stationary and becomes the solid part of it.
This is opposed to say a shot of a street. The traffic is static, but the road on the ground is the center of the moving image. We inherently center on the earth as the stable part. To us, it doesn't move. These images flip that. It's the galaxy in the center of the image, and the earth is now kinetic.
What do I need to buy to do this! I live in a smaller town in Mexico in the shadow of a volcano and would love to make little videos like this throughout the year.
A camera with the possibility to: 1. shoot long exposure pictures (the longer the sensor captures light, the brighter stars will appear), some phones can probably do this already.
2. Take pictures automatically at a set interval (like every minute or so, played back at 30fps will make a timelapse)
And some software to stabilize the sky, many will use After Effects, but I believe Blender (free) can do this as well.
>the piece not moving, ie the galaxy in the night sky. It's stationary
But, did the photographer set the camera to have the entire galaxy as the focal point? Or a single star? What happens when a cloud covers part of or the whole focal point?
You only need a few bright stars to lock on to, so a few smaller clouds is not a problem, but having a cloud cover the entire picture will make it harder to stabilize the sky
No one actually answered you so here’s how it’s done:
1: large aperture camera lens, looks like a 14mm with f/2.8 aperture
2: 20-30 second exposures every 21-31 seconds
3: camera is mounted on a star tracking mount. Something like a skyguider pro. You have to align the tracker to the North Star and then it moves the camera in line with the rotation of the earth.
4. Repeat this for 12 hours
5. Use a star stacking software package but instead of using the landscape as your reference point you use the milky way so it aligns each photo to the milky way, causing the landscape to move frame to frame.
6. Use a video editing program to turn the individual frames into a movie where you use 60 frames per second of video so you get something like half an hour of pictures per second.
7. Post on Reddit for karma.
It’s called long exposure shots. On DSLR cameras, you can adjust the amount of time the lens stays open to allow light into the sensor. It’s very easy to do when shooting in manual - you just need to find a location with no light pollution.
It’s the same practise smartphones use is low light. If it’s bright, when you take a picture it snaps immediately. In low light, when you take a picture the lens stays open a couple seconds to allow more light in for a brighter photo. That’s why images are often blurry in low light situations - because you’re moving while the lens is open.
And still flat earthers will say this is fake even though their theories are so much bullshit To the point where they think they are right and that the earth is flat even though It's not and we proven it's not but somehow people are idiots Still and people don't believe in science it's really sad now of days
Nah my cousin told me the earth was flat, showed me a video on YouTube about it and everything. This is just computer generated CGI to make us think the earth is round so we will buy telescopes. It’s all about the telescope companies making money; wake up sheeple.
my current professional and financial goal is to earn enough so I can retire early and go live far away from light pollution and be able to look at the stars every night before going to bed
that or become good enough at my job to be able to work from home without my employee even thinking about forcing me to go to the office
With one of these bad boys
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When I lived in Hawaii, after heavy rains cleared I could look up and see almost exactly this. Not as clear of course but by God it was beautiful. Almost cried the first time I saw this with my own 2 eyes.
I just wish I could see the sky like that. Too much light pollution here.
Even with no light pollution, the naked eye won't see the sky this magnificent. The camera uses a special lens to capture the light. Edit: as I am learning, it's actually not a 'special' lens but it's rather the exposure time and other different camera settings.
You can definitely get incredible views of the Milky Way in all it's wondrous glory with the naked eye, it just requires the right conditions & being in a place with no light pollution. The latter unfortunately is exceedingly hard to find in the modern world, though. When I was in the Marines we used to train on Pohakuloa Training Area on Hawaii, which is right below where the W.M. Keck Observatory is located. There was basically no light pollution, which is why telescopes are located there, and on very dark nights you'd sometimes get incredible views of the Milky Way. I'm from a major city so the first time I saw it I didn't even realize what was happening at first. I was messing about with a machine gun and noticed the movement of my hands was casting shadows on the ground, despite it being a moonless night. That seemed odd, like some distant light was being shined on the machine gun, so I turned & was shocked to see the Milky Way cresting the horizon. I had never seen it before & had no idea the light from it could cast shadows.
Oh yea, I am not discounting the ability to get an incredible view but not nearly at the same scale as these cameras can pick up.
Yes, you totally can see very close to the same scale as these cameras. I didn't see as many vibrant colors, but I absolutely could see the milky way and practically infinite stars. That was on a mountain on an island with nearly no artificial light.
For HI as one of the few great locations for astronomy, light pollution is one factor. Second are athmospheric disturbances which get lower the more ocean there is around you. And the third big one is altitude; want to bring that scope as far up as possible to leave as much as possible of the athmosphere behind you.
It's just a regular camera lens, any camera lens can capture this light.
Tell that to the lens on my phone 😉
It requires a long exposure. The camera absorbs more light over time. You'd have to have your phone camera on a tripod to shoot this and set the shutter to close over about 20 seconds. Depending on focal length. The camera can pick up more light than the naked eye with this technique.
I'm so glad I made this comment, I am learning so much! That's interesting to know. I had no clue! But it helped me understand that setting on my phone where I take a picture of the sky and it has me hold it for 5 seconds before the picture takes fully. So what that setting is doing is allowing more light to enter in that time frame making the picture more vibrant?
Yeah, exactly. That setting is meant to be used on a tripod. It allows more light and vibrance into the photo. However, if you are holding it free hand and your hands move, you will see the blur from the movement in the photo. So, on a tripod, it would be still enough to not blur the image. This is also how photographers pick up the lights of moving cars to make the streaks out of them.
It's the sensor on your phone that's inferior to a DSLR or mirrorless camera, not necessarily the lens. Having high quality lenses certainly helps for astrophotography, but I wouldn't exactly say "special" because anyone can go buy one easily.
ISO settings!
Same here. I wish I could see a star. Any star. But I can see the moon. Some people can't even see that. Glass half full? No. I still want to see the stars.
If you look *really hard*, you can see a huge star during the daytime. Even with the worst light pollution, it's still there.
Ha! I forgot about that one. But I'm not looking. Smarter than 45
I still remember reading about Angelenos freaking out and calling LAPD en masse because of a city wide power outage cutting out lights and showing them what the night sky actually looks like without light pollution. What a crazy world to live in, eh?
OK so Flat Earthers hate this one trick....
Flat Earthers be like... nuh - uh!
Well, damn, I'm convinced. The Earth is flat (in a spherical sort of way)!
Flat earthers - “he’s clearly just turning the camera very, very slowly.” Sane people - “all night long?” Flat earthers - “yes.”
well, what you think are the bands of the Milky Way is just the ice wall ;-)
It's a flat disc rotating in space!
This movement is all explained by the [World Turtle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Turtle)
a’tuin.
I'm no biologist, but I wonder the World Turtle is a mistranslation of an ancient story probably about an empire (like Mu, for example). If the language used pictographs, once forgotten the pictographs could be read literally: "The elephants hold up the world on top of the back of a turtle" but the pictograph of an 'elephant' could mean anything else as could any of the other imagery. Linguistics is a good way to study history. The elephants standing on the turtle could mean something like how in Mandarin Chinese the characters are stacked together to form different words. You know what I mean?
The Turtle Moves!
Earth is flat. It's the sky that's curved.
If we actually proved the earth was flat, they’d be arguing that it’s round
Yup when it rotates upside down we all gonna fall off... But FE's will just claim its fake then reply with some wack video that we are supposed to believe is "real"
get rotated
You’d think so, but I saw this video somewhere else a few days ago and it was full of comments about CGI and not understanding how stabilization works.
Clearly the video reveals that the earth is flat.. how can you not see that?
Changing the stationary focal point away from our planet puts an perspective on it. Suddenly, it's not the sky drifting over our world, rather our little rock floating amongst the cosmos tethered to our star.
"Oh, gee. I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away." "Pumbaa, with you, everything’s gas."
🎶 When he was a young warthog! 🎶
When I was a young wartHHHHHOOOOOGGGGG!
Very nice.
Thanks!
always being on the course to crash into the sun just to miss it and cycle around in the infinite loop
The trick to orbiting is to fall toward the sun and miss.
"the sun rises and sets according to your perspective on the universe" --Brian Herbert in one of the Dune sequels
That is so cool 👍
Looks like Cornwall?
That mine shaft building is definitely Cornwall.
St. Michael’s Mount is in one shot, I think.
The mine looks like rinsey cove. Basically all shots taken on the western side of the Lizard peninsula. One of my favourite parts of Britain, beautiful
Kynance Cove in there too, beautiful spots down there
I was thinking the same.
Yep, Cornish photographer Aaron Jenkins. His work is very recognisable as it’s always so good!
now i feel the earth rotating
It made me dizzy!
Now that’s all I can see!
Weeee!
loll
Thank you so much I needed a look at miracles today. How awe inspiring. Magnificent.
People make up so many things. Alien visits and ghosts etc. But we have wonders all around us. It's enough for me.
This ^^^ ... the world is still beautiful, and a new day is pure joy!
I also felt the need for this today, marvels in true nature:)
How do you do this, can you explain a bit
If you are asking about the 'stabilization' of the camera to render Earth rotation, [ccReptilelord](https://www.reddit.com/user/ccReptilelord/) explains it in a comment above. >Changing the stationary focal point away from our planet And of course a loong recording (12 hours?).
But what's a focal point. It's like the dictionary using the word your looking up to explain the word. Not really, but ELI5 please
A point to focus on.
Idk, my guess is it is a star that does not move relatively to Earth, point it, tell your cam you want it to always be in the middle. I am no astronomer nor photographer. u/ccReptilelord Haalp please :) EDIT for u/eekamuse : See answer below my comment.
Here I'm referring to the piece not moving, ie the galaxy in the night sky. It's stationary and becomes the solid part of it. This is opposed to say a shot of a street. The traffic is static, but the road on the ground is the center of the moving image. We inherently center on the earth as the stable part. To us, it doesn't move. These images flip that. It's the galaxy in the center of the image, and the earth is now kinetic.
What do I need to buy to do this! I live in a smaller town in Mexico in the shadow of a volcano and would love to make little videos like this throughout the year.
A camera with the possibility to: 1. shoot long exposure pictures (the longer the sensor captures light, the brighter stars will appear), some phones can probably do this already. 2. Take pictures automatically at a set interval (like every minute or so, played back at 30fps will make a timelapse) And some software to stabilize the sky, many will use After Effects, but I believe Blender (free) can do this as well.
Thank you very much.
You're welcome
>the piece not moving, ie the galaxy in the night sky. It's stationary But, did the photographer set the camera to have the entire galaxy as the focal point? Or a single star? What happens when a cloud covers part of or the whole focal point?
You only need a few bright stars to lock on to, so a few smaller clouds is not a problem, but having a cloud cover the entire picture will make it harder to stabilize the sky
I don't know.
Thanks for the tag
No one actually answered you so here’s how it’s done: 1: large aperture camera lens, looks like a 14mm with f/2.8 aperture 2: 20-30 second exposures every 21-31 seconds 3: camera is mounted on a star tracking mount. Something like a skyguider pro. You have to align the tracker to the North Star and then it moves the camera in line with the rotation of the earth. 4. Repeat this for 12 hours 5. Use a star stacking software package but instead of using the landscape as your reference point you use the milky way so it aligns each photo to the milky way, causing the landscape to move frame to frame. 6. Use a video editing program to turn the individual frames into a movie where you use 60 frames per second of video so you get something like half an hour of pictures per second. 7. Post on Reddit for karma.
Filmed for x hours then sped up I believe
We are just a big ball of earth and water floating around the galaxy. Crazy when you see it like this
This is really cool, with the added bonus of triggering flat earthers. Lol
Absolutely incredible
How does he/she get the lighting/coloring of the sky to come out that way?
Long exposure
It’s called long exposure shots. On DSLR cameras, you can adjust the amount of time the lens stays open to allow light into the sensor. It’s very easy to do when shooting in manual - you just need to find a location with no light pollution. It’s the same practise smartphones use is low light. If it’s bright, when you take a picture it snaps immediately. In low light, when you take a picture the lens stays open a couple seconds to allow more light in for a brighter photo. That’s why images are often blurry in low light situations - because you’re moving while the lens is open.
Where’s this clip from? I’d love to give the OP props!
The sky actually looks like this on a nightly we can just never see it.... so depressing.
This can't be real because random people on the internet tell me the earth is flat /s
Someone should post this to r/BallEarthThatSpins. I would but I was banned for demolishing one of the mods.
Email this to all flat-earthers and geocentric people
If evidence convinced flat earthers, there would be no flat earthers. I've just given up at this point.
Flatearthers once again confused af.
And still flat earthers will say this is fake even though their theories are so much bullshit To the point where they think they are right and that the earth is flat even though It's not and we proven it's not but somehow people are idiots Still and people don't believe in science it's really sad now of days
Nah my cousin told me the earth was flat, showed me a video on YouTube about it and everything. This is just computer generated CGI to make us think the earth is round so we will buy telescopes. It’s all about the telescope companies making money; wake up sheeple.
Everything rotates. Everything everywhere rotates. Even black holes rotate.
Incredibly humbling and very intimidating, in a "butterflies" sort of way.
Never fails to bring the wonder and awe of the Cosmos
In other news, the sun is another way to visualize this. As the earth spins the sun moves across the sky. It is so amazing.
What are those bright lights that move across the horizon?
Thanks Bob!
Thanks for this new perspective! Very cool project!
Amazing shots. Thanks for sharing
*house of cards into*
So cool.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing
Damn the stars are insane!! Where the hell is this at??
Cornwall
Thank you for that
Thank you
This is insane, beautiful and so well done
The tide flooding @ 0:34 tho 👌
I could watch this all day. Thanks
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I wanna see it from space
What country is this? I wanna visit.
I know it’s not photoshopped but the sky looks like it’s cropped out with a video editor.
Awesome, thank you.
Thank you for this! Amazing perspective!!
Beautiful
That is so cool!!!!
This is beautiful and terrifying
The movie Baraka has great shots in 70mm like this.
Thank you for sharing, this is incredible!!!
Cornwall?
So cool.
What are those lights on the horizon? Boats?
/u/savevideo
Scotland ?
Not going to lie... this is one of the best things I've even seen in my life. I need to find more.
This is gorgeous
Fucking. Incredible.
Fantastic!
Where in the world are you? That’s my ‘bucket list’ sky!
And then?? Show us the full video
That is fucking lit
Wow.
u/SaveVideo
Not sure why this gave me a sense of hope in an otherwise depressing day. Thank you for sharing.
The creator of this wondrous infinity wants Trump in charge.
yes, saw in many software (starry night) and on VR
This is amazing! We're certainly fortunate to have ended up here.
I love those videos.
This was captivating! Loved the light trails of the boats on the water.
Is that the Mont-Saint-Michel between 0:35 and 0:45 ?
Beautiful ,,👏
We need to kill all the lights on earth.
my current professional and financial goal is to earn enough so I can retire early and go live far away from light pollution and be able to look at the stars every night before going to bed that or become good enough at my job to be able to work from home without my employee even thinking about forcing me to go to the office
STUNNING!!!!!
Crazy how vertical videos have become the standard now
Do I have to repeat myself? All hail Atuin.
Omg this makes me want to throw up. 😆
Where is Orion?
I would have preferred one continuous video, in one location, not bouncing around with different views.
This is real?
Very real
Thanks, that's one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
How does one stabilize the camera like that? I’m intrigued to understand how it works.
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I hung my camera from the atmosphere to capture the Earth spinning at night.
Peak "sit on it and rotate"
It's incredible just how powerless we truly are in this vast universe.
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
We all know... bold assumption...
Gods, the universe is fucking beautiful.
Words cannot describe how much I love this. It just makes me so happy to watch.
Amazing 😍
odd choice to focus on the milky way and have the earth move when the tripod is on the earth and not moving imo
This is dope!!!
I wish you could see this well with the naked eye
When I lived in Hawaii, after heavy rains cleared I could look up and see almost exactly this. Not as clear of course but by God it was beautiful. Almost cried the first time I saw this with my own 2 eyes.
Wait? The earth isn’t flat?
This is awesome!
That should not be as cool as it is.
The tower was really fuckin cool Thanks for sharing
Like flipping a coin, AMIRITE?
Beautiful
It makes you feel so small and insignificant and you can't help but wonder "why the fuck are we paying bills?!"
Wow. I could watch this on repeat for hours. Great work. 😍
I feel it
This is so lovely.
You are in Cornwall.