Playing with Dimensions - Compressed Time

These videos are still regular downloads. I will move them to YouTube and/or Stage6 soon.

AX380, 192x192, 9s, DivX 5.1.1, 228k	This is a quick animation made from 28 out of more than 11,000 video frames that I recorded during the sun-transit of the planet Venus in June 2004. Since I do not have a tripod with automatic earth rotation compensation, the sun kept moving diagonally through the field of view of the JVC camcorder's 22x optical zoom. To create this animation I had to re-target the camera every 10 minutes or so, and then manually crop the sun from each frame - which is why I didn't bother using more than 28 of them... I used a home-made sun filter of Baader solar filter foil (a thin silvery foil specially designed for solar observations, it blocks 99.999% of the light) which I had bought for the solar eclipse in 1999; the frames in which the sun appears more yellow were taken with the Hoya R72 infrared filter behind the solar filter.
Oly 4, 512x384, 24s, DivX 5.0.2, 1300k	A time-lapse of the total lunar eclipse in November 2003 and the rest of the night. The full moon at the beginning is so bright that it causes lens flares, and even during totality it remains the brightest object in the sky. After the eclipse, the Orion constellation floats by before the daylight returns.
AX380, 384x272, 26s, DivX 5.0.2, 2118k	This is the first half - two days and two nights - of a five-day time-lapse video recorded in April 2003 from a friend's apartment in a tower block in Koenigswiesen, looking over the east of Regensburg. The full version of the video is about 150 megabytes (> 4 minutes, 768x576) and I used Ferry Corsten's remix of William Orbit's synthesizer version of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" as the sound track - this sort of music simply matches with any time-lapse video!

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