As you know our planet Earth is spinning on itself, this is what we call the Earth rotation. The best way to witness this fact is to take a look at an astral object and see it moving in the sky. You can look at the sun but it’s more impressive to look at the stars because you see all the sky moving. Astro timelapses are perfect for that because you see the night sky moving at a high speed and the earth movement becomes clearer. However to make it even clearer we can fix the sky and see the earth moving instead. This is what I tried to do here.
To do it we just need to use an equatorial mount to make the DSLR follow the sky. Here I used the Star Adventurer mount. The timelaspe has been shot in the Cosmodrome Observatory in South of France at the end of august. You can see the Milky Way core being hidden by the Earth rotation.
Source:
vimeo.com
