Author Archives: Mike Lewinski

About Mike Lewinski

Timelapser, astrophotographer, Braver Angel Moderator, NOC Director, Off-gridder in Crestone, Colorado, USA (a Dark Sky certified community)

Dec 20-21, 2019 time lapse plus star trails

Some people mark the shortest day, but I always look forward to the longest night (tomorrow).

This time lapse contains 2,877 frames captured over 13+ hours between Dec 20, 2019 at 5:16pm MST – Dec 21, 2019 at 7:02am MST.

There’s a Starlink satellite constellation overpass near the start. It’s more obvious in the star trail version.

Dec 17-18, 2019 time lapse plus star trails

This comes to an abrupt end because the lens warmer drained my battery pack around 4:15am MST, before first light. I have a significantly larger battery arriving soon, with more outlets so I can simultaneously power my camera, a lens warmer and a tracking mount (currently I’m limited by outlets to either lens warmer or mount but not both).

Dec 13-14, 2019 time lapses

A storm moved in, but I still caught some stars and Venus at sunset.
The clouds mostly obscured the Geminid meteors, but still made for an interesting show under the nearly full moon. This is another very long video, 4+ minutes. Counting images from the sunset time lapse I posted earlier, I acquired a total of 10,101 images between Dec 13, 2019 3:42pm MST – Dec 14, 2019 7:05am MST (15+ hours) and completely filled a 128GB memory card. This video contains 7,979 of those images, acquired over 11.5 hours.