{"id":22148,"date":"2017-07-31T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=22148"},"modified":"2017-07-30T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T03:04:09","slug":"shooting-sidereal-timelapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=22148","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Sidereal Timelapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another night on the summit for photography, another night of dual lasers working the sky above the Keck telescopes.<\/p>\n

\"Sidereal<\/a>
A Celestron telescope drive configured as a sidereal rate tracking camera platform<\/figcaption><\/figure>I have never really had a chance to properly use the old Celestron mount for photography after finishing it a few months back<\/a>. Short tests, but nothing properly following the sky for hours on end as the equipment was meant to do.<\/p>\n

It works, and it works very well indeed.<\/p>\n

The video below contains 2.5 hours of time-lapse at 15 second for each exposure for 557 frames. Put that together and render at 24fps and you have the following result…<\/p>\n