"Crescendo (Summer's Glory) 1" by Dylan Kelk/SilverIllusionist (Freesound)

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Please check out this project of mine that just turned 1 year old recently. It took me seven years to capture all the different scenes of my hometown and a couple of months to finalize the video edit. Since I took a real effort with the audio design consider using headphones or stereo speakers :)

Vid starts about 7 sec in; Astrophotophotography time-lapse, drift mosaic from May 15 night sky, Bortle 8-9 location. Drift works by leaving the telescope pointed at a spot in the sky and letting the natural drift from Earth's rotation build the time-lapse pic. To make the mosaic, images are stacked and stitched.

You could just film the frames and build a video, but stacking and stitching greatly enhances the quality.

I would just share the resulting image; but social media platforms like Reddit do not like 92k+ pixel wide images, 500+MB large. So I had to reduce resolution and quality, and put into video form.

Setup:
StarThreader 1 telescope
IMX533 mono camera
0.5 second exposures, 10 sec apart.
Vibe-coded scripts to do image processing, stacking and stitching, and video creation.

It's still a learning process; would appreciate helpful pointers or related curious questions.

Timelapse from this afternoon into evening I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Right at the end you can see some of the mammatus clouds forming.

1:06 minutes of clouds moving and twilight👍. I don't care if you find my location I'm moving out of there sadly.

My latest timelapse video was just released! This time we're visiting Stockholm Odenplan, one of the busiest transport hubs in the Stockholm metropolitan area, Sweden.

If you're a bus enthusiast or simply enjoy watching the rhythm of city life you'll love this one. Sit back and enjoy the buses in action!

I had the opportunity to document the field assembly of Caterpillar's battery-electric 793 prototype over three weeks using three Edge autonomous solar timelapse systems.

This machine was absolutely massive. The tires stand nearly 11 feet tall. Happy to answer any questions about the project or the capture setup.

Looking through the sunroof!