Life in optical

It’s all about seeing our movement in space. The rotation is obvious – but then the Perseids add a wonderful sense of movement in one direction, and that’s exactly what it is: the Earth cruising through a dusty part of interplanetary space. Like driving through snowfall. The atmosphere is our windscreen but it’s not veery thick! Good thing the shooting stars themselves are no bigger than a grain of sand… :)

Joshua Tree Under the Milky Way from Henry Jun Wah Lee on Vimeo. Timelapse video of the Perseid Meteor Shower and the galactic core of the Milky Way as seen from Joshua Tree National Park. These were taken between August 12 and August 15, 2010. For more photos and words: Under the Milky Way. Gear: 5D Mk II, EF 16-35mm L. Settings: f/2.8, 6400 ISO, 20 second exposures. Music is Samskeyti by Sigur Ros

Cape Town Lion’s Head Moonrise from carolune on Vimeo.

Being a total timelapse junkie I was peacefully imaging the sunset when I read chatter about noctilucent clouds all over twitter. A trending topic in the stream of UK people I follow. I opened my camera, put together my timelapse, and sure as twitter, there they were :) Yay!

I don’t think I have ever seen a noctilucent cloud timelapse before.

Clouds, sunset and noctilucent clouds from carolune on Vimeo.

First we see the clouds. The the sunset colours them orange, then they disappear.
Then they start glowing again, way into the night. Those are Noctilucent clouds.
For more info, check here:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/highsky/nlc1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctilucent_cloud

I dreamt of a night sky full of colourful stars – of course :) What did you think of?

As seen from my livingroom. How could I not?…

Fire in Warmond from carolune on Vimeo.

As seen from my living room in Leiden