Even though it was cloudy last night it was a Full Moon so I set up for a shoot of 5000 Hi-Res pictures starting just before Sunset. I decided not to use auto on this run and opted to use a fixed iso of 320 while letting the Theta S pick the shutter speed. I also set the WB to “shade”. I woke up at 5am and checked the iPhone 7+ which was running the Python script and storing all the stills only to find that it completed its full run 10 minutes earlier at 4:52. Since sunrise had not yet started I went ahead and started another run of 1500 Hi-Res pictures at 5:09.
When I got up again at 8am I found that the script had stopped while processing picture 418 of the second run at 6:04 (Sunrise was to be at 6:12). Close.
I went and pulled the rig back into the house to find that the Theta S status light was blinking red but all the rest of the lights looked good. My battery was still at 3/4 charge. The Theta S returned to normal operation after a power reset. I have no idea why it froze.
I used FFMPG to create the two linked videos. One is 60 fps and the other is 30 fps. I used all 5417 pictures (5376x2688) that I had captured to make the videos (converted down to 2048x1024).
The run of 5000 was completed in 10 Hours 38 minutes and 30 seconds for an average of 7.662 seconds per picture.
It is surprising what can be done with an iPhone running a python script, a Theta S, external battery, selfie stick and bungie cords.
first link not working (the 60 fps one). This would be good for surveillance. Also probably good for events if you can find a way to prevent theft of the camera.
Couldn’t get a real answer on the star near the full moon (I see it, too) but I did find this out:
The April full moon, known as the Seed Moon, Pink Moon, Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon, or Fish Moon, always shines in or near the stars of Virgo. It rises around sunset and sets around sunrise. This is the only night in the month when the moon is in the sky all night long. The rest of the month, the moon spends at least some time in the daytime sky.
By the way, I’m not sure I totally believe what I just pasted in as a comment! It’s really cool watching the full moon in Bob’s video, fun being able to track it as you want or to look at other details. 360 is pretty damn cool. And I was enjoying watching it set… then it came back up again! It had just passed behind a roof, not a real moonset. Anyway, it came back out as the sun was up and the sky was light. So it was still up in the sky at least during some morning light.
@Bob_White, I believe your comment about “official Sunrise.” I ran into the concept of Civil, Nautical, and Astronomical sunrises (and sunsets) while learning to sail in the San Francisco Bay. I don’t know where exactly your video was filmed, but I’m willing to believe even with some light in the sky that the moon could set “before sunrise.”
Actually really like @Svendus’s “sampling” of @Bob_White’s time-lapse! A different perspective. And nice music. (And the music doesn’t skip when you jump forward in the video. I guess the audio track is not part of the video. Interesting.)