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Mauna Kea Heavens 4: Finished

After two years of filming, I finished the fourth and final timelapse montage in the "Mauna Kea Heavens" series. This video features lots of adaptive optics lasers, milky way shots, many scenes of the erupting volcano, and several hyperlapse sequences. It utilizes focal lengths from 12mm to 1000mm. I completed my PhD and moved from Hawaii to Washington, D.C., so I won't be filming the telescopes anymore. It can be viewed at vimeo.com/302336360

 

In this shot, the bright object left of the Keck 1 laser is Mars, and the slight "burst" at the end of the Keck 2 laser is caused by thin cirrus clouds.

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Uploaded on November 23, 2018
Taken on August 1, 2018