ESO VLT time lapse stargazing video.

[trekkiedane]

Do yourself a favor and watch it in high resolution and full-screen.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFpeM3fxJoQ[/yt]​

 

[Owain Taggart]

Yes, amazing isn't it? I went see a famous astronomy writer speak, and he talked about the experience of being at those telescopes and helping with a similar video.

 

[trekkiedane]

I think "amazing" is the right word! -although "beautiful" would also describe it very well

 

[An Officer]

Awesome. The soundtrack is brilliant as well.

 

[iguana_tonante]

It's one of the biggest regrets of my career: I've been working on data from the VLT for years in my work, but I never had the opportunity to visit them. Ah, the joyless toil of the data analyst. Observers have all the fun.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Here's the man I was speaking about. You may all be familiar with him:

http://www.skynews.ca/pages/10ClearNights.html