Celestial Size Chart

There are several videos circulating showing a comparison of the largest stars. I like these kind of things, and I wanted to try one myself. Probably because I also watched "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan as a kid. Actually my first Youtube upload. Hope you like it...

This is a crisp and clear star size chart to help me understand my place in the universe. ​

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100,000 Stars - Great Chrome Experiment

From the Project:

"100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood created for the Google Chrome web browser. It shows the location of 119,617 nearby stars derived from multiple sources, including the 1989 Hipparcos mission. Zooming in reveals 87 individually identified stars and our solar system. The galaxy view is an artist's rendition based on NGC 1232, a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way."

Astrophotography by Lincoln Harrison

Photos by Lincoln Harrison

via Faith is Torment

5 - Star Trail Timelapse

‎"Startrails Timelapse Carolina" Filmed at Huckleberry Knob and Salvo, N.C.; the far eastern and western edges of North Carolina. Print of the main image available here: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/perseid-smoky-mountain-startrails-daniel-lowe.html http://danieldragonfilms.com http://twitter.com/IStockTimelapse This is what I did with 2 years worth of static star timelapses that might have otherwise went unseen. If this gets a decent amount of views, then I'll follow up with a tutorial on how to do this in After Effects.

North Carolina-based photographer Daniel Lowe explains:

These scenes are created by stacking a sequence of long-exposure, high-resolution digital photographs in Adobe After Effects and allowing each photograph to linger on the screen for a short duration of time before fading.

via PetaPixel

1 - Within Two Worlds

Timelapse, yeah, still not sick of it. Especially when it captures things like star tracks, which I could never see with just my eyes.​

"Within Two Worlds depicts an alternate perspective by giving us the illusion of times movement, signifying a beginning and end within a world of constant contradiction. It appears you are traveling in the midst of a dream, half-sleeping, half-waking, and touching the arch connecting heaven and earth." I discovered my passion for photography shortly after my mother’s passing while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) 3 years ago. This time-lapse video is my visual representation of how the night sky and landscapes co-exist within a world of contradictions. I hope this connection between heaven and earth inspires you to discover and create your own opportunities, to reach your rightful place within two worlds. Please feel free to share #withintwoworlds! Special thanks to all for your continued support and encouragement. http://www.goldpaintphotography.com Music composed by Serge Essiambre entitled, 'Believe in Yourself'. - http://www.sergeessiambre.com. Limited edition, fine-art prints are available at http://goldpaintphotography.com/purchase. In-field and online workshops are available. For more info, visit: http://goldpaintphotography.com/workshops. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/goldpaintphotography Twitter: https://twitter.com/goldpaintphoto Google+: https://plus.google.com/117178975214870026107/ Newsletter: http://goldpaintphotography.us4.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=1cd259fff3f13363d6b10e257&id=2cf51e18d3 Locations include: Tumalo Falls, Three Sisters Wilderness, Mount Shasta, Big Bend National Park, Mono Lake, Aurora Borealis over Crater Lake National Park, Texas, Painted Hills, the High Sierra, and the Aurora Borealis over Sparks Lake. All footage (roughly 7K images) was captured using Nikon equipment. No motion control systems used. Copyright © 2012 Goldpaint Photography, All Rights Reserved. For consideration only, no reproduction or commercial use without prior authorization in writing.