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Mauna Kea Heavens Timelapse

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
1 decade 7 months 1 week ago

Vimeo description:

Timelapse of the observatories atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The summit is at an altitude of nearly 14,000 ft and is the premiere site for astronomy in the Northern Hemisphere. As an astronomy graduate student at the University of Hawaii, I've enjoyed excellent access to the facility. Some of my favorite still images of Mauna Kea can be found at sgphotos.com/photostories/maunakea.

This montage was filmed on three nights in April (I was observing on one of the telescopes and would walk outside when things got boring) and four nights during summer 2013. More information (i.e. "What's up with the lasers?" "What gear did you use?") can be viewed at http://sgphotos.com/portfolio/timelapse/makingmaunakeaheavens/.

More of my timelapse work can be found here and at http://sgphotos.com/portfolio/timelapse. Please notify me prior to featuring my work.

Music: "All is Violent, All is Bright" by God is an Astronaut.

8 Comments

erlanter says...

What are the yellow beams?

jokingly says...

Fricken' laz0r beams!

What are the yellow beams?

If you follow the link in the description, Sean Goebel answers the question "what's up with the lasers" there. They are used for adaptive optics to compensate for atmospheric effects (the "twinkling" you see when you look at stars). Sometimes they can use a reference star instead, but there isn't always one in the right part of the sky, so the laser provides a bright point of light to use instead.

What are the yellow beams?

Moving this video to oritteropo's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*beg

Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter oritteropo.

I went in a few of those this Summer. Took about 2 hours to feel like I had enough oxygen to breathe.

LIDAR?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar

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