VLT (Very Large Telescope) HD Timelapse Footage

[Midnight Rambler]

wFpeM3fxJoQ

I had to share this with you. What a beauty. :)

I suggest watching this You Tube video in 720p HD and full screen.


Credits:

ALL IMAGES: (eso.org) taken on location by Stephane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado.

ESO/S. Guisard (http://www.eso.org/~sguisard)

ESO/José Francisco Salgado (http://www.josefrancisco.org)

MUSIC SCORE: "We Happy Few" - The Calm Blue Sea (2008) [http://www.facebook.com/thecalmblueseaband]

EDITION: Nicolas Bustos

[Corncrake]

Thanks for that - stunning. Oh for a clear night sky - impossible living in London with pollution and ambient light.

[Midnight Rambler]

Thanks for that - stunning. Oh for a clear night sky - impossible living in London with pollution and ambient light.

Light pollution is a real shame. I live in the country but have not this clear a view on our stars. I can see some nice stars on a clear night though. :)

[Rainbowbrite]

This is really beautiful - thank you for sharing! Oh for skies as dark and clear as these :)

Blessings - Rain

[Midnight Rambler]

I have a question, does anyone know what is happening here? It looks like they are shooting some kind of laser in the sky. But why...? :confused: You can see it in the video on 2:42 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFpeM3fxJoQ&t=2m42s)

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=10128&d=1317237365

[Kindred]

Now THAT was IMPRESSIVE!!! ( I am Completely Awe-Struck)

THANK YOU

and, having recently been laid off.. Now I want to re-train to be an Astronomer! :cool:

[thunder24]

my space buddy says its a tracking laser...the light sensitve camera...picked it up


peace

[Peter Kraai]

I Love these timelapses ! If only we all would be able to see the skies so clearly.. Damn you, light pollution.

[Pete]

did anyone watching that beautiful film get the impression we were on a spacehip flying through the cosmos. It's so easy to keep our thoughts down here in the mundane and yet just lifting our head we are exposed to limitless possibilities. Thank you for sharing this

[Midnight Rambler]

I came across this picture. The beam is directed to the center of the milky way.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Laser_Towards_Milky_Ways_Centre.jpg

Big (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Laser_Towards_Milky_Ways_Centre.jpg)

There are more amazing pictures in the source-link

Source (http://www.lovethesepics.com/2011/03/eso-stargazing-the-majestic-milky-way-35-pics/)




When you were a kid, did you ever wish upon a star? Stargazing always seems to help put problems into perspective. Americans usually know more about and love NASA, but the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is cool too. The ESO operates the Paranal Observatory, located in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile at an altitude of 8,645 feet. The largest telescope on Paranal is called the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and it shoots a super cool laser into outer space. These incredible pictures were all taken at the ESO, featuring gazillions of stars in the majestic Milky Way, the VLT, Cerro Armazones, La Silla Observatory, or ALMA antennas.

[Midnight Rambler]

my space buddy says its a tracking laser...the light sensitve camera...picked it up


peace

Yesterday I saw the BBC popular scientific BBC television show Horizon and it featured the Very Large Telescope (VLT). The explanation given for the laser shooting out of the telescope was that it detects the atmospheric distortion of light. The distortion is measured and the image is adjusted so the pictures of the universe can be optimally observed.

I loved the show and can recommend it to all you universe lovers out there. You can probably download the show. If you use the keywords in Google you will probably find it so you can download the show. ;)

(Keywords: Horizon 2011 BBC seeing stars torrent)

[Mark Aldebaran]

Every square inch of sky contains countless planets orbiting countless stars.
Fortunately for us, God sent His only Son to this one. Right.

[TargeT]

my space buddy says its a tracking laser...the light sensitve camera...picked it up


peace

Yesterday I saw the BBC popular scientific BBC television show Horizon and it featured the Very Large Telescope (VLT). The explanation given for the laser shooting out of the telescope was that it detects the atmospheric distortion of light. The distortion is measured and the image is adjusted so the pictures of the universe can be optimally observed.

I loved the show and can recommend it to all you universe lovers out there. You can probably download the show. If you use the keywords in Google you will probably find it so you can download the show. ;)

(Keywords: Horizon 2011 BBC seeing stars torrent)

this is part of how the image is so clear, natural vision cannot (at least mine cannot) do what this type of set up does..

even cooler : now they are pruposefully introducing flaws to the mirriors that are used for these VLT's.. they map the flaws for a baseline & correct for them with software & bam! even better images than the "near perfect" mirriors of the past.

we sure are clever little monkeys aren't we.