
Overnight at La Ensenada Costa Rica by John McDonald
2 years ago
The night sky on February 26, 2009 from La Ensenada Lodge located on the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica. The camera was set to shoot a sequence of images every 30 seconds all night and the results were turned into this video.
The prominent objects in order of appearance are:
- Canopus is the bright star at right center at the start of the night.
- The red nebula Eta Carina rises out of the cloud next.
- The southern cross follows next.
- When the southern cross gets high you can see the coal sack beside it.
- Some of our fellow observers makesa cameo appearances with their red lights as they sets up.
- After some clouds cross the central bulge of the milky way comes up.
- Look for the dark rift in the milky way next
- Dawn ends a great night
Copyright 2009- W. John McDonald
The prominent objects in order of appearance are:
- Canopus is the bright star at right center at the start of the night.
- The red nebula Eta Carina rises out of the cloud next.
- The southern cross follows next.
- When the southern cross gets high you can see the coal sack beside it.
- Some of our fellow observers makesa cameo appearances with their red lights as they sets up.
- After some clouds cross the central bulge of the milky way comes up.
- Look for the dark rift in the milky way next
- Dawn ends a great night
Copyright 2009- W. John McDonald
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Edouard Boily 2 years agoTotally amazing! Great work! -
DDC
2 years ago epic. I linked you. -
Anthony Pitko
2 years ago Awesome John! I love my time lapses (as you can see on my page), just got back from Costa Rica and had the unfortunate circumstance of a freaking full moon peaking midway through my trip. So no time lapses of Rica. Bummer. Love your video! I would enjoy throwing a 300mm lens on and pointing and tracking Carina or the Southern Cross. Living in L.A. I'm lucky to get to see the moon and I did capture Jupiter and most of its moons last night, but focused on my little forest instead. Kudos! -
RASC Victoria Centre
2 years ago Thanks much Anthony. I get a kick out of doing time lapse videos of the night sky and like seeing what others do with time lapse. Yours are very neat.
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