Time Lapse Moon Eclipse April 15th 2014

Beau Schwabe

I was hoping this would be a little bit smoother... The feed that I took this from last night kept messing with their telescope position, and dropping the feed due to internet traffic. So in efforts to clean it up, some frames were removed.

Time Lapse Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTpN9X4strc


Perl code that uses the "gnome-screenshot --interactive" program to capture the desktop screen at timed intervals

#! /usr/bin/perl
#
#Programmer: Beau Schwabe
#Date:       April 3rd, 2007
#Purpose:    Program designed to capture screen at timed intervals
#
#Command Line Example:
#
#	Capture {FileName}{Interval}{Itterations}
#

for ( $i=1; $i<= $ARGV[2]; $i++ )
    {

     $msg = "echo Sleeping for $ARGV[1] seconds from...";
     system($msg);
     $msg = "date";
     system($msg);
     sleep $ARGV[1];
     $msg = "echo";
     system($msg);

     if ( $i <=9 and $ARGV[2] > 9)
        {
         $msgfile = "0$i.jpg"; 
        }
     else
        {
         $msgfile = "$i.jpg"; 
        }

     if ( $i <=99 and $ARGV[2] > 99)
        {
         $msgfile = "0$msgfile"; 
        }

     $msgfile = "$ARGV[0]$msgfile";

     $msg = "echo Capturing image $i of $ARGV[2] as $msgfile";
     system($msg);
     $msg = "echo";
     system($msg);
     
     $msg = "import -window root $msgfile"; 

     system($msg);

    }
exit

Publison

Thanks for that Beau!

I was up, but it was raining here in the Northeast. :frown:

JonnyMac

I live about 2.5 miles (as a crow flies) from the Griffith Observatory. Used my Canon 60D to snap some images. I used the kit lens which is not very sharp, nor very long (135mm). Still, I think it turned out okay.

When I was doing some early test shots to experiment with aperture and shutter speed I kept thing, "Darn, I have to build an intervalometer for this camera!

Publison

Nice Jon!

You guys were lucky to view it first hand.

mindrobots

JonnyMac wrote: »

"Darn, I have to build an intervalometer for this camera!

Haha!! That's what brought me back to Parallax and the Propeller back in 2011!!

I can still proudly say, "Darn, I have to build an intervalometer for this camera!"

Nice captures to both of you!!

I was in cloud cover, so it was a moot point whether I had an intervalometer or not.

The other project I have for my cameras is an HDR "intervalometer" - currently, I can only do 3 and 5 shot auto brackets (depending on the camera) it would be fun to have more flexibility and control in the bracketing for HDS shots.