Atacama Starry Nights - A TimeLapse by Your Movies
Atacama Starry Nights - A TimeLapse by Your Movies
Atacama Starry Nights - A TimeLapse by Your Movies
Featured on National Geographic:
blog.nationalgeographic.org/2012/02/21/new-time-lapse-gives-rare-glimpse-at-atacamas-starry-nights/
Astronomer's Paradise is the first episode of Atacama Starry Nights
timelapse movie series.
Cerro Paranal is truly an astronomers paradise
with its stunningly dark, steady and transparent sky.
Located in the
barren Atacama Desert of Chile it is home to some of the world's leading
telescopes.
Operated by the European Southern Observatory (eso.org) the
Very Large Telescope (VLT) is located on Paranal, composed of four 8 m
telescopes which can combine their light to make a giant telescope by
interferometry.
Four smaller auxiliary telescopes, each 1.8 m in
aperture, are important elements of the VLT interferometer.
Walking on the desert near Paranal between the scattered stones and
boulders on the pale red dust feels like being on Mars but under the
Earth sky.
It is an amazing experience to be under an ideal night sky, a
pure natural beauty unspoiled by urban lights.
On Cerro Paranal in the
Atacama Desert you look all around the horizon and there is no prominent
sign of city lights, neither direct lights or light domes.
There are
not many locations left on this planet where you can still experience a
dark sky like this.
I have been to similar dark skies in other
continents from the heart of Sahara in Algeria to Himalayas or islands
in the Pacific. But what makes Atacama beat others is being dry and
clear for so many nights per year.
Paranal was selected for cutting edge
astronomical observations also because of the sky transparency and
steady atmospheric condition which let astronomers peer in to tiny
details in the deep cosmos using giant telescopes.
This footage is made during an imaging expedition to Paranal assigned by
the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
(twanight.org/tafreshi) of The World at Night (TWAN) program
(twanight.org).
The inside observatory video is contributed by Stephane
Guisard (astrosurf.com/sguisard).
License inquiries: babaktafreshi.com/contact
3 Credits
Babak Tafreshi Producer
Stéphane Guisard Contributor
Atacama Starry Nights - A TimeLapse by Your Movies
Featured on National Geographic:
blog.nationalgeographic.org/2012/02/21/new-time-lapse-gives-rare-glimpse-at-atacamas-starry-nights/
Astronomer's Paradise is the first episode of Atacama Starry Nights
timelapse movie series.
Cerro Paranal is truly an astronomers paradise
with its stunningly dark, steady and transparent sky.
Located in the
barren Atacama Desert of Chile it is home to some of the world's leading
telescopes.
Operated by the European Southern Observatory (eso.org) the
Very Large Telescope (VLT) is located on Paranal, composed of four 8 m
telescopes which can combine their light to make a giant telescope by
interferometry.
Four smaller auxiliary telescopes, each 1.8 m in
aperture, are important elements of the VLT interferometer.
Walking on the desert near Paranal between the scattered stones and
boulders on the pale red dust feels like being on Mars but under the
Earth sky.
It is an amazing experience to be under an ideal night sky, a
pure natural beauty unspoiled by urban lights.
On Cerro Paranal in the
Atacama Desert you look all around the horizon and there is no prominent
sign of city lights, neither direct lights or light domes.
There are
not many locations left on this planet where you can still experience a
dark sky like this.
I have been to similar dark skies in other
continents from the heart of Sahara in Algeria to Himalayas or islands
in the Pacific. But what makes Atacama beat others is being dry and
clear for so many nights per year.
Paranal was selected for cutting edge
astronomical observations also because of the sky transparency and
steady atmospheric condition which let astronomers peer in to tiny
details in the deep cosmos using giant telescopes.
This footage is made during an imaging expedition to Paranal assigned by
the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
All video rights reserved by
Christoph Malin (christophmalin.com) and Babak Tafreshi (twanight.org/tafreshi) of The World at Night (TWAN) program
(twanight.org).
The inside observatory video is contributed by Stephane
Guisard (astrosurf.com/sguisard).
License inquiries: babaktafreshi.com/contact
3 Credits
Babak Tafreshi Producer
Stéphane Guisard Contributor
Christoph Malin Producer and Editor
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