So I was in space mood last night after watching Felix Baumgartner's stratosphere jump. Outside, raindrops hammered against the windows, so I grabbed me some RedBull as well as my earplugs and finally stacked my way trough 1 TB Thunderbolt RAID packed ISS time-lapse footage.
Staring 10 hours into the screens I was more and more amazed about the Star Trails emerging from the ISS footage. With three machines rendering at the same time it was quite a journey to see which footage would work stacked, and which not. At some point I felt a bit like Jeff Bridges fighting against the mighty mainframe in TRON. So I was TRONized!!!
In so far, the result is quite psychedelic, and as Dude Phil Plait over at Bad Astronomer points out very nicely (in yet another reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey): "Oh my god, it's full of startrails!"
ISS Startrails - TRONized from Christoph Malin on Vimeo.
Here's a list of some of the sites that have featured the video! Wuup!!!
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/time-lapse-star-trails/
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504784_162-57533736-10391705/international-space-station-footage-as-an-art-form/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/10/16/my-god-its-full-of-star-trails/
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/10/mental-health-break-11.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/christopher-malin-iss-stacks-space-station-video_n_1987998.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504784_162-57533736-10391705/international-space-station-footage-as-an-art-form/
http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/video/2012/10/17/une-video-caleidoscopique-de-la-terre-prise-depuis-l-espace_1776864_1650684.html
http://diyphotography.net/incredible-time-lapse-created-by-staking-images-from-the-iss
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2012/10/video-iss-start.html
http://gizmodo.com/5952421/stunning-iss-time+lapse-shows-thunderstorms-from-space
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/10/16/stacked-star-trail-time-lapse-created-with-photos-shot-from-space/
http://www.universetoday.com/98019/video-space-station-reaches-warp-speed/
http://io9.com/5952155/holy-moley-this-guy-just-turned-earths-atmosphere-into-tron
http://nikonrumors.com/2012/10/21/weekly-nikon-news-flash-185.aspx/
http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/16/3511250/watch-this-international-space-station-thunderstrorm
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/10/17/star_trails_video_watch_incredible_video_of_star_trials_in_motion_video.html
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/video-of-the-week/2012/10/18/iss-startrails/
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-10-16/news/34505369_1_time-lapse-video-international-space-station-images
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/feel-like-youre-flying-at-warp-speed-watch-this-video-of-stacked-up-space-photos/#.UH8Kxnsj_NQ.twitter
Cheers
