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The Stars as Viewed from the International Space Station.

2012-03-22T07:30:53.968Z

Timelapse videos depicting the stars from low earth orbit, as viewed from the International Space Station. Images edited using Adobe Lightroom with some cropping to make the stars the focal point of each shot, and with manipulation of the contrast to bring out the stars a bit more.

The video plays best if you let it load a bit first.

First sequence star-trails processed using StarStaX:
markus-enzweiler.de/software/software.html

Music: "Truck out There" by London PM.
Editing by Alex Rivest

Timelapses and images courtesy: The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. The Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. One of NASA's best outreach programs, in my opinion.
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Videos/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/

A very big thanks to NASA astronaut Don Pettit (@astro_Pettit) for taking most of these images.

Dedicated to those who dream of exploring the solar system, and those who are sharing their experiences while doing it.

via [Buzzfeed]

Time Lapse Sky Shows Earth Rotating Instead of Stars

2011-05-30T18:11:17.449Z

Here is a minor edit to the excellent video by Stephane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado, posted at Nicolas Bustos channel. Visit http://eso.org for more about the European Southern Observatory.

The time-lapse starfield has been edited to show the rotation of the Earth from the point of view of the stars.

At http://astrosurf.com/sguisard/ and http://josefrancisco.org/ are more pictures from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) located in the Atacama Desert, Chile.

Music: "Arcadia" available at http://incompetech.com, copyright by Kevin Macleod.

At http://youtu.be/wFpeM3fxJoQ is the original video.

At http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-05/time-lapse-video-very-large-... see this blogged at Popular Science

For anyone interested, here's how to do the effect with the cheap version of Sony Vegas Movie Studio ($50). (Better packages offer auto-stabilizing, which would be a lot easier.) Use Tools, Video, Video Event Pan/Crop. Add two keyframes, one at the beginning, and one at the end. Choose a star that appears at both beginning and end. Align a reference point on the frame (any point of your choosing) to the star at the keyframe in the beginning and the keyframe at the end. This alone will accomplish the effect if no rotation is required. When rotation is required, first determine where the X Center and Y Center of the Rotation setting in the Pan/Crop window should appear. (If you use the scroll bar at the bottom of the Pan/Crop window to preview forward and backward you can eyeball where the center of the arc formed by the stars is.) Drag the X Center, Y Center to that point, which may or may not be within the video frame. The final step is to eyeball the rotation angle that occurs between the keyframe at the start and the keyframe at the end. If you've done all this correctly, the effect itself will handle all the angles and x/y positions between the two keyframes. If you find yourself tweaking it by adding new keyframes in the middle to try to realign stars along the way, that's the path to madness (cf. 1:07 in the video). Just get the x/y position, rotation center, and angle of rotation correct for both the first and last keyframe and it should work fine.

via [TheDaily What]

Heineken Stadium of Stars

2010-05-25T06:46:55.811Z

For the last 5 years, Heineken has found a way to celebrate the UEFA Champions League competition. This year it did just that, by building a replica of the Santiago Bernabéu stadium in George Enescu Square, Bucharest. Heineken Star Stadium consists of 25 modules that required 40 000 Heineken cans to be used, representing ½ the capacity of the Santiago Bernabéu stadium. The cans are fixed on a semi-spherical matrix of 8 m x 6 m, with a 3m height. The Heineken Star Stadium was built in 3 weeks and it required 2 days to assemble it.

Warpaint - Stars

2010-01-07T10:03:19.559Z

Official music video for "Stars" by Warpaint, taken from the Exquisite Corpse EP (Manimal Vinyl).

Filmed in the ashes of the Angeles National Forest.

Shot by Adam Harding, edited and directed by Burke Roberts and Adam Harding ©…