Solar panning camera build and eclipse shenanigans
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- čas přidán 8. 04. 2024
- Building a camera platform with a long lens on it to follow the sun and make a timelapse of the eclipse. Some interesting shots captured with it, and talking about light levels during the eclipse
Bloody hell, Matthias ... woodworking, optics, astronomy, engineering, photography and electronics in one single video! Well done
And family interaction to boot. Great video, and concept.
I picked the wrong live stream, and was disappointed when there was no totality. He was a bit outside the path. Still cool though.
Builds wooden telescope in two days
They're not that complicated if you know what you are doing.
With parts laying around the house.
@@super8hell nothing is complicated if you know what your are doing, daaaa
Yeah, FFS NASA, get your act together!
@@super8hell Mirrors is most complicated part
No idea why this isn’t a main channel video. Your build is great and the results are phenomenal.
Its more tech oriented, so it belongs here more. Just because the main channel has 9x the subs doesn't mean it will get more views there.
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there are very very few creators who can inspire ordinary folks to learn unknown subjects and definitely you are that rare teacher / creator
@@matthiasrandomstuff2221 It has gears, woodworking, and outside-the-box thinking. Totally belongs on the main channel.
Why not both? Increase the odds of being viewed
@@jasonharrison25 if the side channel makes good videos that get good engagement, the side channel will gain followers organically.
This is the only eclipse coverage I've seen so far, came from the best source. Thanks Matthias!
The NASA capture by jet airplane is interesting. Added a couple of minutes to a normal ground based eclipse.
“Harmonics of the chopstick” is something I’ve never heard before
I learned from a hobby machinist's channel, "Everything is a spring, no matter how strong you think it is."
I love it when old projects can become new projects. Videos like this are good reminders that skills (and parts!) accumulate over time. I ignored the eclipse because "it's just a shadow, whatever" but you treated it as a 4-day engineering challenge and learned new things that will undoubtedly feed some other project.
Time to go make more future parts!
This was just shy of a master class in DIY sun photography. Great job and amazing results!
Your mirror/diopter projector of the eclipse was amazing, too. That has never occurred to me, to do it that way.
I just smiled when I saw you making a lens adapter out of wood. My braid had gone to 3d printing one, and I almost forgot your specialty was wood.
Thank you so much for this video. I have been looking into astro-trackers called barn-door trackers, and have often wondered why there are so few builds based on stepper-drivers. Now I know, the purpose of them is to be simple to build. The jarring movement of the steps would be a challenge to most home builders to overcome, whereas cheap DC motors are easy to come by and control. Well done.
I love these random tangents you go off on, they're always so fascinating and often include things I'm interested in! Also, we have the same SLR camera!
I love these interesting projects too.
That mechanism was fascinating. I was adjusting my solar viewer manually and it was amazing how fast the image of the sun moved
It would probably have moved as fast as my image of the sun on the wall did. The sun moves its width about every two minutes.
@@matthiasrandomstuff2221 Most likely. still, it was an amazing experience and I am keen to find another one to view!
That plasma eruption shot is amazing.
Nothing in astronomy is more satisfying than getting the pictures of something yourself. I was superexcited when I got the M42 nebula, because I had to come up with a hacked up parallel mount to take a picture while using my telescope as a manual tracker.
M42 is one of my favorites
When I first got my DSLR, I was so happy taking moon photos.
I've seen plenty of moon photos in my life, they all look the same.
But still the one I took would be a lot more exciting...
Later on I took a photo of Jupiter and some of its moons, nobody would understand why I was so happy about it...
Why aren't you working for like NASA or something Matthias 😆💕👍 Thanks for sharing, loved the shots with red geysers. My Dad, a professional photographer loved your setup too 👍
Great capture. I appreciate your inclination to utilize simple resources at hand.
Your friend is so notorious for leaning against the railing, the last time he did it during an eclipse, even the sun and the moon complained about the view getting distorted!
I loved that, doing what you can with what you've already got. Hope the kids enjoyed the experience.
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He's like McGyver back in the day! Only instead of exploding something Matthias gives us this amazing videos!
and getting better pictures than I did with a professional setup
@@aaroncameron1494 What gear do you have? If its "professional" like you said, you probably dont know how to use it correctly.
Fabulous! Main channel worthy. And then some.
I love that you made your adapter out of plywood.
Of course he made a plywood lens mount on a lathe... Amazing work! I love this channel. How'd he get the focal length correct??
No doubt eyeballing it.
On a metal lathe
lathe sounds like a recent addition
@@9peppe A few months, he has some videos tinkering with it on this channel or the other one.
@@nixlarfs1002 tbf, wood/metal might be equally accurate on that lathe. ;P It was clearly purchased just to bang things out.
My son noticed the red eruption from the bottom and pointed it out to me asking what it was. I told him it was a coronal mass ejection but soon realized solar prominence was more fitting. Either way, it was amazing to see.
Lots of work on your part but the capture you made was as good as any I've seen. Great work! 👍
There's nothing like an immovable deadline to focus the mind. 😂 Great video and brilliant end result.
I just wanted to say how much I really appreciate all of the amazing work you do with your brilliant mind. You truly are an exceptional individual and I love tuning in to watch your videos.
Thank you for capturing the picture of the plasma eruption! Most photos don't (perhaps can't?) do it justice. To my eyes it was a bright ruby-red dot in a corner of the black sun.
Kids are getting big!!
Thanks for the share. Neat project
This has to be one of your best ever videos. I love what you did and think the results are incredible. Thank you!
I'm always blown away with not only the amount of detail and insight you explain about your projects but the amount of work you do to document the project as you go along as well as the amount of time you (or whoever) must spend to put it together at the end. I'm tired after just watching this ;-) .... I think I'll go and take a nap.
Thank you for sharing, this was very interesting.
Nice project. Educational as well.
Fun and interesting project and video 👍🏻
Mattias is a freaking goat. Amazing work (play) man. Love the content.
I don't relate to all of the videos on this channel, but it's times like this that make me really appreciate it. Thanks for sharing the process, as always. Glad you and the family got to experience it together
I built some filters using some wood disks and solar filter film.
Used some rubber bands to hold them to binoculars. It was absolutely incredible. You could easily see sunspots and other features. It felt like you could touch it.
this is the correct way to do it. Solar filters dont just dim the sun, they also block all harmful wavelengths that you cant see.
Gotta love the work you put into doing this. Another option would be to recognize how much detail modern sensors allow, enough to crop images significantly. This would allow one to leave the camera rock steady pointing at one lower magnification spot, to fully encompass all of the movement you'd see over a short time span. Cropping video later in Premier Pro or FCPx can be rock steady, without the complexity of a moving camera mount.
Most of the unsteadiness came from the atmosphere. Also, sensor is just 12 megapixels, and to have a lens super sharp edge to edge is another challenge. I also would have needed a much bigger filter. So your idea gets complicated fast.
I don't know why I had tears running down my set face as I watch this but you are the epitome of human ingenuity thank you
We had complete cloud cover here. Thanks for sharing!
A very nice homebrew RA Dec Mount...
yup. Tho his method of polar alignment (the piece of wood) is flawed. Enough for low focal lengths tho.
shenanigans approved!!! Thank you Matthias.
really cool, fun to chase something
Well done M with your usual attention to the various details of the task. Enjoyed very much, as we were in the 30% zone and it was cloudy to boot! cheers!
Damn! Impressive work!
I really enjoyed this video!
This is why I watch your channel! You are crazy smart and you put it to real world use in a way we all understand and love watching. Thank you.
Great job. Thank you for sharing these awesome images.
One of the things that doesn't get talked about much is that you can drive a stepper motor with an analog signal. Preferably two equal sine waves 90 degrees out of phase, Applied Science demonstrated this a few years back. The real problem is finding a DAC that you can use to generate a sine wave at the frequency needed to drive one phase. The other phase could be handled by a phase shifter made out of some OpAmps, but while I know that works for music, I'm not so sure it will work at the low frequencies needed here. That said if you have a DAC that can generate the frequency needed, it's likely that you can get a second one, and set it up to start a new sine wave at 0 as the first sine wave peaks, and you will have the right phase separation. Then run those two signals through a pair of voltage control gates off of a power supply that provides the voltage you're comfortable driving your stepper motors at, and you get the desired movement out of the steppers. (With the caveat that if the stepper is rotating in the wrong direction, you simply flip the wires on either pair of coils.
The bad part is I don't expect to be around to test this the next time North America sees a total solar eclipse. It should work for astro-photography though.
Very cool stuff!!
Amazing work and intelligence to do what you did with what you had.
This was a great video. Can I suggest a shorter version of just the eclipse photos to share with friends?
the eclipse photos i took are nothing special, others no doubt made better ones with better gear
@@matthiasrandomstuff2221 yes but your picture actually look authentic and the story is cool. I would share that video, but not this one because my family and friends aren’t interested in the level of detail you provided. I should note that I was interested in that level of detail.
In word, impressive!
Thank you for capturing and sharing this! I have been telling everyone that looking at the totality was like looking at a TV with a broken pixel in it. Your pic at the end is what I was seeing.
Wow. Just wow. Thank you for building your setup and sharing it with us. Like you, I love the photo of the plasma eruption! I believe I live too far north to be in the path of totality, but I do remember my dad giving me some welding glass when I was a kid to watch the eclipse.
I remarked at the red jet near the bottom of the Sun while watching - truely amazing event. I was in Indiana for a 4 minute, 1 second totality.
++++ You are a super smart guy, your kids are lucky.
I can't believe the weather we got for this eclipse, and even more amazing, I got the same sort of weather for the 2017 eclipse. The craziest thing for me in both cases is how the sun is completely too bright until the last second. Like, if you didn't know about eclipses, you'd have about 5 seconds between when the sun basically looked normal, until it looked like a blackhole sun, and it suddenly became dark (though, of course, the light cast around you looks weird for like 20 minutes beforehand). These two eclipses are major highlights of my life, and I may well never see one again. I'll never tire of eclipse content, and I suspect that's true of anyone who's ever witnessed one.
Very nice project, with a hard deadline and barely time for testing. Good it came out very good.
I live nowhere near the the totallity path, so I watched NASA stream, the commented one. They mentioned the plasma eruptions in there, and also the diamond ring, and bunch of other things.
I wasn't near the path either. We got 83% here. But with eclipse glasses on I still saw the Moon transiting in front of the sun. Without the glasses I couldn't notice a thing. At one point the sun did look like a crescent Moon. I guess it was 83% covered. In an eclipse the light doesn't really change until the sun is just a sliver. So somewhere north of 99%
You should make a third channel just for your optics experiments, since that is something you are obviously super passionate about, and it is also interesting for us nerds out here.
Astounding.
Nice work! 👍
Cool video, again!!
I was more excited about your inevitable eclipse experiment videos than I was for the eclipse itself 😂 very nicely done!
great video
so much more fun than just buying stuff!
If only I was half as smart as this guy. Very cool video, the best I've seen. Thanks.
Awesome, love your experiments !🤩
Better pics than I got - my camera died 10m before totality (and then magically worked again 10hrs later - I guess it overheated)
My tracking system worked at least (EQ-1 mount, 3d print shaft adapter, and a stepper) so I will at least now be able to do some long exposures that I've wanted to do for years.
This was very interesting. Thank you for taking us with you on this adventure.
Thanks for sharing! You have the best footage I've seen so far. You're one smart cookie to figure all of this stuff out.
Way more interesting than anything else I've seen on this eclipse!
Great job!!!
I watched that on autoplay.
Then opened the video just to leave you a like.
Amazing as always.
That was fantastic.
You knocked it out of the park again! I did see those geysers, but only on the official NASA Tv feed where they were using nice cameras on telescopes at every location they showed the eclipse from. Very impressive images you got considering you just started putting stuff together 4 days beforehand, and only using stuff you had on hand! It was very interesting to see the difference in lens clarity at various apertures - I've always known that shooting around f/8 gives sharper images, but I've never looked at images captured at various apertures and compared them myself!
Loved this
This is classic Matthias and it is what makes every video awesome.
When you wanted to test for jerkiness of the rotation, you could have used a lazer pointer taped to the main disk (that what you avoid the resonance all together, as well as the large inertia of such a long/big rod)
always a good experience to watch you work!
great job!
Very cool thank you
Well done !
One of your top 10 concepts for sure.
Thanks for all your work producing this very cool video!
Fantastic work, Matthias! 😃
Really fun project!!!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
I love this stuff! There’s something to be said for using science for every day stuff. Keep them coming
Very fascinating
So interesting thank you
nice one Matthias!!
Excellent work, Matthias! Well worth the effort!
Nice work! I really enjoyed your experiment.
Only mid way thru the vid and this is awesome
Have to say this was one of my favorites.
I Just smiled all the time. Very well done Matthias and so much fun to watch.
That shot of the sun geyser is awesome. Worth all of the effort, imo.
Matthias, this was a great video!
This should've been posted on the main channel! Awesome, Matthias!
Very cool!
I've been looking forward to this video since you mentioned that you were going to do it. Did not disappoint!
Excellent! Good pictures, and fun process of building the apparatus.
Great vid as always. Only eclipse vid I watched as well :)
The best video about this theme
Matthias - you are a true engineer.