{"id":24,"date":"2011-04-21T05:02:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T11:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/l3m.3d3.mytemp.website\/?p=24"},"modified":"2014-02-04T11:37:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T17:37:35","slug":"orion-motion-controlled-night-timelapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dakotalapse.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Orion \u2013 motion controlled night timelapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/22700617?color=ffffff\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/22700617\">&#8220;Orion&#8221; &#8211; motion controlled night timelapse<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/dakotalapse\">Randy Halverson<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/04\/time-lapse-astrophotography\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wired.com article<\/a> Robo-Camera Rig Animates the Night Sky<\/p>\n<p>Taken in central South Dakota in late march-early april. It was the first time I\u2019ve had the chance to use an Orion head mounted on the Dynamic Perception Stage Zero dolly. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dynamicperception.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">dynamicperception.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003YLJHQA\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wp-amazon-associate-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;creative=373489&amp;camp=211189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Orion head<\/a> (aka Merlin or Celestron) telescope head allows for an ultra slow pan and tilt of the camera while it moves slowly along the dolly. The MX2 controller from Dynamic Perception also controls the Orion head. It wasn\u2019t used on every shot, because it just wouldn\u2019t work for it, or the shot was from the second camera mounted on a \u201cmilapse\u201d telescope head. It works great with the MX2 controller from Dynamic Perception and I\u2019ll be using it as often as I can. I tested the included controller with the Orion and found it was a little too fast for night timelapse, but with the MX2 controlling it, it worked great.<\/p>\n<p>At 2:09 you can see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003YLJHQA\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wp-amazon-associate-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;creative=373489&amp;camp=211189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Orion head<\/a> panning and tilting on the dolly.<\/p>\n<p><code><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0040JHVC2\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wp-amazon-associate-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;creative=373489&amp;camp=211189\" rel=\"nofollow\">Canon EOS 60D<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=stormvideo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0040JHVC2\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> and<br \/>\n<\/code><code><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0035FZJHQ\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wp-amazon-associate-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;creative=373489&amp;camp=211189\" rel=\"nofollow\">Canon T2i <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=stormvideo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0035FZJHQ\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/code><br \/>\n<code><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0014Z3XMC\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wp-amazon-associate-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;creative=373489&amp;camp=211189\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tokina 11-16mm<\/a><\/code><br \/>\n<code><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000EXR0SI\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wp-amazon-associate-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;creative=373489&amp;camp=211189\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tamron AF 17-50mm<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=stormvideo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000EXR0SI\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/code><\/p>\n<p><code><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00005RKSK\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wp-amazon-associate-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;creative=373489&amp;camp=211189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sigma 20mm F1.8<\/a><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Shot in RAW format, most shots were 25 seconds exposure F2.8 with 2 second interval between shots, for about 300 frames or so (several hours). There were a few 30 second exposures. ISO 1600<\/p>\n<p>Music is \u201cEquinox\u201d by American Dollar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericandollar.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">theamericandollar.info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more info or licensing contact<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/l3m.3d3.mytemp.website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">dakotalapse.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dakotalapse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">twitter.com\/\u200bdakotalapse<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/DakotaLapse\/111818295557281\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">facebook.com\/\u200bpages\/\u200bDakotaLapse\/\u200b111818295557281<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Video &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A0S6wXpfLPc\" target=\"_blank\">Orion Head moving on Stage Zero Dolly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Orion&#8221; &#8211; motion controlled night timelapse from Randy Halverson on Vimeo. &nbsp; Wired.com article Robo-Camera Rig Animates the Night Sky Taken in central South Dakota in late march-early april. It was the first time I\u2019ve had the chance to use an Orion head mounted on the Dynamic Perception Stage Zero dolly. dynamicperception.com Orion head (aka &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dakotalapse.com\/?p=24\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Orion \u2013 motion controlled night timelapse<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,3,2],"tags":[177,160,159,10,161,158,157,4,9,125],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4k","category-motion-control","category-timelapse","tag-4k","tag-astrophotography","tag-moon","tag-motion-controlled","tag-prairie","tag-south-dakota","tag-stars","tag-timelapse-2","tag-timelapse-stock-footage","tag-ultra-hd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dakotalapse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dakotalapse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dakotalapse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dakotalapse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dakotalapse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dakotalapse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/dakotalapse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dakotalapse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dakotalapse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dakotalapse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}