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Currently Playing: The Polaris-Lapse part 3: The Photography

I made this star-stabilized looping timelapse centered on Polaris. In this video, I explain the challenges of filming a 24-hour timelapse, and give my solutions to many of these problems for future timelapse-recorders. In this video: I dunno grapes Creative Commons: Attribution http://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626

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Slow-motion frogs are goofier than I expected
Sound so loud you can SEE it
Is this camera "faster than light"?
When a dragonfly makes a mistake
Star-Stabilized 360 Camera #perfectloop #astronomy
I DROPPED my slomo camera to explain how gravity works
Homemade lightspeed camera (mk. 2) #physics #slowmotion #laser
Laser hits a disco ball at 2 billion fps
A laser pointer at 2 billion fps makes the speed of light look... kinda weird
Nature’s greatest hunter intercepts lunch at 1500 FPS
What if you looked UP for a whole day and night?
I weighed an airplane... while it was flying!
Weighing a paper airplane WHILE IT'S FLYING. #physics #slowmo
Flying playing cards are awesome
Flying playing card through smoke in slow motion
Slomo of my resonance machine #physics #slowmo
Homebuilt Lightspeed Camera #physics #light #engineering
I built a 1,000,000,000 fps video camera to watch light move
Resonance is more than just standing waves
This puzzle took me three years and required thinking in 3721 dimensions
Dragonfly eats a gnat #slowmotion
Dragonflies hunt by predicting the future
You can mix 10 marbles until they sort themselves. Why not 100?
I made a machine to un-mix fluids
Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second
An intuitive approach for understanding electricity
Two ways to make asymmetric mirrors (Printing vs. Warping)
How does electricity find the "Path of Least Resistance"?
IP over AC: Mmmmmm Ppppfffftttt SssshhhhhhhWOOOSH
A laser powered by tiny molecular springs (2^16)
Why does WATER change the speed of electricity?
Five years in 49 minutes
50,000,000x Magnification
The most realistic eclipse timelapse I've ever taken - Spring 2022 Lunar Eclipse HDR stack
Eye vs Camera: Why it's nearly impossible to film an eclipse
A Lunar Eclipse filmed with two cameras #Shorts
Introducing the Magneto-Turboencabulator
Are solid objects really “solid”?
I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate
How to predict random numbers
How does a "first surface" mirror work? (2^15 sub special!)
Algorithmic Redistricting: Elections made-to-order
Ditch the DSLR? The 200-year-old science of my new favorite camera (2^14 sub special!)
I went to a Delta IV Heavy Launch!
Growing Giant Snowflakes (Timelapse Supercut)
Big Hexagons of Ice 2: Thermoelectric Boogaloo
Impressions: Every exploit to “break the algorithm” targets this baffling metric
A DIY Recipe for Giant Hexagonal Ice Crystals
Freezing water sounds like a special effect #shorts
What is polycrystalline water?
3D Printing a Spritz Cookie Press! (Christmas Special)
How does PLANETARY RADAR actually work?
How to go Faster than “Mach 1” on a Surfboard
The Sound of Freezing: BONUS RAW FOOTAGE
The Sound of Freezing: Explained!
Some REAL science for the channel! Growing semiconducting PbSe crystals (MROP 2020 talk)
Why are metals so stretchy? (2^13 sub special)
SpaceX's Starlink, satellite flares, and spectacular twilight rocket plumes: EXPLAINED!
Why does smoke from a soldering iron ALWAYS go towards your face???
How to evaporate a metal
Air-tight vs. Vacuum-tight
The UNKILLABLE Snake AI (Entire 30x30 game)
How to Win Snake: The UNKILLABLE Snake AI
The muon-powered, universe-bifurcating, random number machine
Making the World's Smallest Play Button (2^12 subscriber special)
Overcomplicating GOLF by simulating every possible shot
How to Boil Water With Water (pt. 2: experiment setup)
Boil Water at Room Temperature with 50 ft. of Hose and a Stairway
Starlink satellite train seen over southern California (May 25, 2019, 21:20)
Overnight timelapse on a deserted island: full equipment stack
Lights of LA from Santa Cruz Island: a 24-Hour Timelapse
Crystals: raw footage - 3D simulation of crystallization (Molecular Dynamics)
Crystals: raw footage - the water-bath-magnet demo
Crystals: Building patterns with randomness
A Tiny Planet in the Cosmos: APOD 20181208
Staring at the sky for 24 hours (4k/Virtual Reality timelapse)
Staring at the sky for 24 hours (4k timelapse)
Star-Stabilizing the Entire Sky (spherical distortion)
2^11 Subscriber Play Button: CNC-Routed Poplar
$20 DIY Surfboard Bike Trailer
Measuring the speed of light the old fashioned way: Replicating the Fizeau Apparatus
24-hr Timelapse: Full Moon at the Winter Solstice (VR Cut)
24-hr Timelapse: Full Moon at the Winter Solstice
Supermoon Tides: a 24 hour timelapse (4k)
DIY Lasercut Christmas Tree
Asteroid Hunting at Grande Pines Observatory (3122 Florence)
Inside Grande Pines Observatory: Top-of-the-line amateur astronomy
Metal Butter Bot IRL (Stop Motion)
Butter Bot IRL - Behind the Scenes
Rick and Morty Butter Bot machined from metal
Star-tracking camera mount: Why it works and how to build one
2^10 Subscriber Play Button - 3D printed PLA
DIY 3D printed steampunk safety glasses
Star-Stabilization: The Infinite Polaris Timelapse (4k)
The Infinite Polaris Timelapse - Spinning (4k)
The Infinite Polaris Timelapse - Static (4k)
The Polaris-Lapse part 3: The Photography
The Polaris-Lapse part 2: The Astronomy
The 24-hr "Polaris-Lapse"
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