Meet the Giant - A night at the 10.4m Gran Telescopio CANARIAS

Gianluca Lombardi
Gianluca Lombardi
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Published 2015-06-02
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This is a timelapse showing a night at the 10.4m Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (or Grantecan, or GTC) and the wonders of the Northern Sky from the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos in the Island of La Palma (Canary Islands).

Between April 21 and April 24 2015 the Lyrids meteor shower was amazingly visible from the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos. I have made a timelapse of the event as seen from different locations around the GTC, collecting 46 hours of continuous shooting (almost 4200 pictures in total) leaving my Canon 5D Mark III (equipped with a Samyang 14mm f2.8) outside on the telescopes platform and inside the telescope enclosure, acquiring the frames while I was the GTC Night Astronomer.

NOTES:
- At 1:50 in the upper-right part of the scene, a huge meteor explodes leaving an expanding red smoke trail
- At 3:12 you can see the ISS transiting above the GTC from the right toward the left low in the sky (North-South)
- During the nighttime scenes you can enjoy green and red beautiful airglow in the sky

Soundtrack: "A Lovely Place To Be", So Flows the Current (2001), Patrick O'Hearn

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