Beautiful Time-Lapse of Milky Way over Lake Tahoe

Would have been better to link directly to the video: <a href="http://vimeo.com/14718221" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/14718221</a>

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: <a href="http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK" rel="nofollow">http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK</a><p>Sadly the CHDK hacks don't work with DSLRs (yet).<p>EDIT: I should add that the beauty of timelapse is that even an old 5MP camera can create beautiful 1080p HD videos.

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.

<a href="http://timescapes.org/" rel="nofollow">http://timescapes.org/</a>

Beautiful. I hope he can do one from somewhere in southern hemisphere, as the galactic core is really quite impressive.<p><a href="http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=milky+way+southern+hemisphere&#38;um=1&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;source=og&#38;sa=N&#38;hl=en&#38;tab=wi&#38;biw=1920&#38;bih=955" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=milky+way+southern+hemisphe...</a>

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.<p>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.

De-spammed link - <a href="http://vimeo.com/14718221" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/14718221</a>

this is also good - and, dare I say, better? <a href="http://vimeo.com/4505537?pg=embed&#38;sec=4505537" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/4505537?pg=embed&#38;sec=4505537</a>

From looking at this time lapse I can actually get a sense of the world turning. Very impressive to watch.

This is beautiful, and I'm a photography buff, but how does this have anything to do with startups or hacking?

A friend shot a similar video a bit closer to Mono Lake: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir2ISR-XjD4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir2ISR-XjD4</a> The clouds disappear half-way through.

I've forgotten how cool the sky is at night. I'm currently in Montreal, Canada and it's got a horrible problem of light pollution.

Another 100 billion reasons why Lake Tahoe is one of the most beautiful places on earth.

Somehow I was expecting a candybar and really starting to wonder what the video would be about. Still, very beautiful

I just got this incredible feeling of being on a spaceship, turning.

I want this looping as my os x desktop. Anyone know how to do that?

Pardon me for my short sight, but why is this HN material?

The number of shooting stars amazes me.

Awesome photos. This needs some equally awesome music in the background, though.<p>Try this:<p>"Nevergreen" - Emancipator <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RChF0wlcWfQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RChF0wlcWfQ</a><p>(timelapse video link) <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/14718221" rel="nofollow">http://www.vimeo.com/14718221</a>