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Offline Clive

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The Sky in Motion
« on: January 02, 2009, 18:54 »
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Re: The Sky in Motion
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2009, 20:51 »
Cool!  Nice music too!  :thumb:
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Re: The Sky in Motion
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2009, 23:28 »
Thanks for tipping me off Simon.   8-)
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Re: The Sky in Motion
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2009, 23:38 »
You're safe now.  Noddy and the Auld Lang Syne cats have gone!  ;D
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Re: The Sky in Motion
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2009, 04:51 »
I had a lovely time entertaining my cats with "Auld Lang Syne cats". Nemo still can't figure out where they are....... he's a boy, what can I say.  :)x
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Re: The Sky in Motion
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2009, 11:39 »
cool!! beat our dodgy attempts...

We have a webcam on top of the University observatory here at Birmingham try to look do night snaps shots, it was a testbed instrument for a more advanced system (one to look at the sun, for sunspot, and a meteor hunter; we were going to get the students to build)... but here is what a typical night looks like - http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/observatory/download/webcam/cam3/20081130.avi - guess what the main problem is... and it starts with a blasted C....
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Re: The Sky in Motion
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2009, 11:54 »
Doesn't work for me Sam.   :bawl:
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Re: The Sky in Motion
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2009, 17:27 »
Quote from: Clive on January 03, 2009, 11:54
Doesn't work for me Sam.   :bawl:


hmm maybe its the file type (though its a pretty standard compression)... oh well :-D
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Re: The Sky in Motion
« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2009, 17:36 »
Plays here, Sam, though with a strange texturing for most of the file (vertical lines).
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Re: The Sky in Motion
« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2009, 17:42 »
As above.  :)
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Re: The Sky in Motion
« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2009, 18:26 »
Quote from: Rik on January 04, 2009, 17:36
Plays here, Sam, though with a strange texturing for most of the file (vertical lines).

yep, that's a problem with the processing we do on the files... we still have some issues to overcome on that...  in some of the others you can actually see the sky rotate.. look at the stars moving in this one: http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/observatory/download/webcam/cam3/20080424.avi (not the bright pixels but the fainter ones, you should see the plough (or big dipper) at the centre and that rotate around)
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Re: The Sky in Motion
« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2009, 18:45 »
Sort of. You need to know what you're meant to see, if you know what I mean.
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Re: The Sky in Motion
« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2009, 21:19 »
yeah, I understand what you are saying... you should see something like this shape, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ursa_Major_constellation_detail_map.PNG, move around... though its not as spectacular as the first link - I'd stay with that for the wow effect :-D but one day we might be as good!
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Re: The Sky in Motion
« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2009, 18:35 »
Great film,found the Coldplay music...annoying  :-\
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