It's amazing and slightly terrifying that the bathing of light at the end of the video was due to one of those stars which just happened to be a bit closer than the others.
If anyone is interested in a cheap way to shoot stunning timelapses, buy yourself an old Canon Powershot off eBay, a $5 memory card writer, and download the CHDK firmware hacks for Canon cameras: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK
Sadly the CHDK hacks don't work with DSLRs (yet).
EDIT: I should add that the beauty of timelapse is that even an old 5MP camera can create beautiful 1080p HD videos.
I love looking at photographs but have never really found photography to be something that I wanted to pick up and learn. I think this just changed. that. It's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
And love the fact that stuff like this makes the front page of HNews. I'm here for the tech discussions, but love to come across things like this. Exactly why HNews is the first webpage I visit in the morning.
Agreed, it's so great to have a community like HN where we can just share everything from coding to photography to philosophy and everything in between. I was so excited to share it here as soon as I found it. That's not something you can say about most online communities.
And yeah, I've seen some spectacular photography before, but this just took my breath away.
I would not refer to the laughing squid as blogspam. Yes, all they do is aggregate stuff from the rest of the internet, but they tend to be really good at snatching stuff just before it goes mass viral. If you want a place that'll let you stay infront of reddit, this is it.
I personally always make exceptions for the cosmos. Nearly everyone here spends all their time and their money and their whole lives dedicated to machines, to computers, to glowing rectangles.
It's very good to sit back - even if you're still looking at the computer - and remember what's out there.
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
While I agree with you, I think it's due to submissions such as this that end up leading to things like the recent submission "Solving the Hacker News Problem" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2252152
Frankly, anything that causes one to give pause and ponder the universe has at least some intrinsic intellectual -- or more accurately, perhaps, philosophical -- value. And that, beyond mere tech, startups, and hacking, is one of the driving factors behind the HN community, as the reader feedback to this link clearly demonstrates.
I've not been myself, but if you have a car I don't think you need to travel too far off-island before you get some clear skies. My bet would be to head up towards Mt Tremblant.
