117 frames taken 1 minute apart with 1/20s exposure through a 40mm F/5.6 lens, iso100. Shot between ca 1am and 3am early morning on Thursday 16 July 2009.

I’ve also combined all the images into one, using either all (1 minute interval) or some (2 and 3 minutes) of the frames:

This is clearly worth doing again when the skies are darker, perhaps with a longer focal length lens. The back-drop of stars and planets would be nice to catch also, but because the moon is very bright and the stars much fainter that will requires some HDR-magic. For a long HDR time-lapse series I would probably need a programmable intervalometer (e.g. netbook w. USB-connection to camera).

About 9 hours compressed into 38 seconds. 566 frames shot at 1 minute intervals from around 10:00 in the morning to 19:36 in the evening. Played back at 15 frames per second, which makes for a ~900x speedup.

I first re-sized the jpegs to 1024 pixels wide and then used this matlab script to assemble the AVI-file. The original 20 Mb AVI may have better resolution than the youtube version.

Canon 20D with 17-40/4L lens on Manfrotto 486RC2 ballhead and Velbon Sherpa pro CF 635 tripod. Timing with a ‘Yongnuo’ TC-80N3a remote from dealextreme.com.