AstroVideos: Eclipses, Miscellanea, Clouds and Other
by Lorenzo Comolli & Alessandro Gambaro (and other friends)


Summary:  Eclipses | Miscellanea | Clouds | Other

Eclipses
Subject: Total Lunar Eclipse
Date: 21 February 2008
Location: Tradate (VA), 350m, Italy
Camera: Canon EOS 350D unmodified
Sensitivity: 400-800 ISO
Objective: Schmidt-Cassegrain 20cm f/6.3
Exposure: from 4 s to 1/1000s
Frame interval: 5 min
Formats: AVI and SWF
Author: Lorenzo Comolli
Subject: Total Lunar Eclipse
Date: 21 February 2008
Location: Castano Primo (MI), Italy
Camera: Canon EOS 350D Hutech
Sensitivity: 400 ISO
Objective: Sigma 20mm f/3.5
Exposure: auto
Frame interval: 30 s
Duration:
1.00 -> 5.30 UT
Formats: AVI and SWF
Author: Alessandro Gambaro
Subject: Total Lunar Eclipse
Date: 3-4 March 2007
Location: Tradate (VA), 350m, Italy
Camera: Canon EOS 350D unmodified
Sensitivity: 400-800 ISO
Objective: Schmidt-Cassegrain 20cm f/6.3
Exposure: from 4 s to 1/1000s
Frame interval: 1 min
Formats: AVI and SWF
Author: Lorenzo Comolli
Subject: Lunar Libration during Total Lunar Eclipse
Date: 3-4 March 2007
Location: Tradate (VA), 350m, Italy
Camera: Canon EOS 350D unmodified
Sensitivity: 400 ISO
Objective: Schmidt-Cassegrain 20cm f/6.3
Exposure: 1/1000 s
Frame interval: 7 h
Formats: GIF and SWF
Author: Lorenzo Comolli
Subject: Total Solar Eclipse, animation of the second contact
Date: 29 March 2006
Location: Sallum, Egipt
Camera: Canon EOS 350D Hutech
Sensitivity: 100 ISO
Objective: Pentax 75, f.l. 500 mm
Exposure: 1/1000 s
Frame interval: 1 fps
Duration:
from T2-25s to T2+15s, (T2 at 10.38.06 UT)
Formats: AVI and SWF
Author: Lorenzo Comolli and Alessandro Gambaro
Subject: Total Solar Eclipse, animation of the third contact
Date: 29 March 2006
Location: Sallum, Egipt
Camera: Canon EOS 350D Hutech
Sensitivity: 100 ISO
Objective: Pentax 75, f.l. 500 mm
Exposure: 1/1000 s
Frame interval: 1 fps
Duration:
from T3-15s to T3+25s, (T3 at 10.42.02 UT)
Formats: AVI and SWF
Author: Lorenzo Comolli and Alessandro Gambaro
Subject: Total Solar Eclipse, animation of the complete eclipse
Date: 29 March 2006
Location: Sallum, Egipt
Camera: Canon EOS 350D Hutech
Sensitivity: 100 ISO
Objective: Pentax 75, f.l. 500 mm
Exposure: partial phases 1/125 s with a glass solar filter D5, and from 1/2000s to 1s in totality
Frame interval: 1 fps
Duration:
from T2-25s to T2+15s, (T2 at 10.38.06 UT)
Formats: AVI and SWF
Author: Lorenzo Comolli and Alessandro Gambaro
Subject: Total Solar Eclipse. This video show the central minutes of the eclipse, with the T2 and T3 contacts and the corona. The audio track  reveal the atmophere that we were living...
Date: 29 March 2006
Location: Sallum, Egipt
Camera:  Panasonic digital videocamera
Objective: 60x optical zoom
Exposure: auto
Frame interval: 25 fps
Formats: AVI and SWF
Author: Lorenzo Comolli and Alessandro Gambaro


Miscellanea
Subject: Mars 2007-2008 animation
Date: single images of December 2007 and January 2008
More details: here
Formats: AVI , GIF and SWF
Author: Lorenzo Comolli
Subject: Asteroid 2006 VV2 from only 3.9 milions of km
Date: 29 oct 2006
Location: Tradate (VA), 350m, Italy
Camera: kaf-6303 ccd camera
Objective: Schmidt camera dia 300mm f/2.0
Exposure: 30 s
Pause: 30 s (some frame was not acquired)
Formats: AVI and SWF
Author: Lorenzo Comolli
Subject: Lunar occultation of Saturn, Entrance phase
Date: 22 may 2007
Location: Tradate (VA), 350m, Italy
Camera:  Webcam Philips Vesta Pro
Objective: acromatic refractor 120mm f/13 + barlow 2x
Exposure: 1/10 s
Frame rate: 10 fps
Formats: AVI and SWF
Author: Lorenzo Comolli and Stefano Simonelli
Subject: Lunar occultation of Saturn, Exit phase
Date: 22 may 2007
Location: Tradate (VA), 350m, Italy
Camera:  Webcam Philips Vesta Pro
Objective: acromatic refractor 120mm f/13 + barlow 2x
Exposure: 1/10 s
Frame rate: 10 fps
Formats: AVI and SWF
Author: Lorenzo Comolli and Stefano Simonelli



Clouds
Subject: Cloud-fall
Date: 5 jul 2008
Location: Bogli (PC), 1350m, Appennines, Italy
Camera: Canon EOS 350D unmodified
Objective: 18mm f/5
Exposure: auto
Frame interval: 15 s
Formats: AVI and SWF
Author: Lorenzo Comolli
Subject: Springtime sky
Date: 19 apr 2008
Location: Castano Primo (MI), Italy
Camera: Canon EOS 350D Hutech
Objective: 22mm f/8
Exposure: 1/250 s
Frame interval: 10 s
Duration: 100 min
Formats: AVI and SWF
Author: Alessandro Gambaro
Subject: Dance of clouds
Date: 9 jun 2007
Location: Promiod (AO), Alps, Italy
Camera: Canon EOS 350D Hutech
Objective: 33mm f/8
Exposure: auto
Frame interval: 10 s
Duration: 1 h
Formats: AVI and SWF
Author: Alessandro Gambaro



Other

Subject: Conference at CielOstellato 2008 StarParty, explaining the tecniques of time-lapse sequences. This animation was used as a practical example.
Date: 10 may 2008
Location: Ostellato (FE), Italy
Camera: Canon EOS 350D unmodified
Objective: 18mm f/6.3
Exposure: auto
Frame interval: 10 s
Duration: 1 h
Formats: AVI and SWF
Author: Lorenzo Comolli and Alessandro Gambaro
Subject: Breakfast at midday after a night of observing, not so fast, 1h! From the left Cristiano, me, Giosuè and Ilaria.
Date: 2 may 2008
Location: Bogli (PC), 1350m, Appennines, Italy
Camera: Canon EOS 350D unmodified
Objective: 18mm f/9
Exposure: 1/200 s
Frame interval: 5 s
Duration: 1 h
Formats: AVI and SWF
Author: Lorenzo Comolli
Subject: Opening and closing of my roll-off observatory
Date: may 2007
Location: Tradate (VA), 350m, Italy
Camera: Canon EOS 350D unmodified
Objective: 8mm f/8
Exposure: auto
Frame interval: 3 fps
Formats: AVI and SWF
Author: Lorenzo Comolli




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