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    Relaxation Time Lapse with 4K-X

    A calming, cloud time lapse made with EmpireTech Color 4K-X 6 mm camera.
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    Color 4K-T 3.6 mm NE Sky April 24 2025

    Milky Way, aurora and hundreds of Starlink satellites decorate PNW looking northeast over Cascades from 0100 to dawn. Best viewed on YT with quality set to 4K Captured at 3FPS and time lapse done in Final Cut Pro
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    Eagle Nebula on Color 4K-X

    It is right at the limit of what the sensor and 6 mm lens can pick up, but the Eagle Nebula shows up as a faint blob in this time lapse. You can see the sensor gain is nearly too high by the presence of fixed hot pixels, but the nebula is obviously a real part of the moving star field. I zoomed...
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    Moonrise via Color 4K-X 6mm

    Cropped from top half of frame from Color 4K-X 6 mmm camera Moonrise looking to the Cascades, southeast. Lights to right are on Snoqualmie Ridge. Salish Lodge (Great Northern Hotel in Twin Peaks) are lights in center.
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    Christmas Sunrise 2024

    Two of my "sky cam" Color 4KT's caught these while I was away at work. Didn't realize what a sunrise had occurred until review on Boxing day.
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    Seattle Area Bomb Cyclone Sky Captures November 2024

    We're still without mains power, but sky cams are still on the job. Last time this size outage happened it was an 11 day outage in my area. PNW bomb cyclone time lapse. Wind direction during bomb cyclone is reverse from usual prevailing. That likely contributed to the numerous tree falls as the...
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    A Little Cloud Play

    A short showcasing some October November cloud play over the Cascades. (EmpireTech IPC-Color-4KT 3.6 mm) [Changed to 59.9 FPS, lower motion judder version]
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    Moonrise Valley Oct 22, 2024

    A pretty one to relax with. Color 4KT 3.6 mm does its magic with moonlight.
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    Serene Sunset and Moonlight

    Full moon tonight created an opportunity to showcase a Color-4KT turning night into day using moonlight. 4K full screen recommended.
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    Bobcat on the Hunt

    Look out, kitty. Almost same place, same time.
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    KP7 Aurora Oct 7 2024

    Strongest display we have seen in the Seattle area since the major May 2024 event. With KP7 intensity, red and green colors were visible to naked eye.
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    Bunny Hunt - Three Opposing Teams

    Still has four lucky feet, but that will change....
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    Geosynchronous Satellites

    I think these are geosynchronous satellites flaring into view Fixed position, but flaring dots amidst a moving star field. These all seem to be along the same plane. They also reappear at same location and time on different nights. Bright pixels stuck on in camera sensor should not flare at...
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    Momma Bear and Her Two Cubs

    Would never have caught this at night on the security system without the thermal spotting motion 300 feet out.
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    Aurora Through Seattle Clouds Sept 12 2024

    Strong and near enough to appear on all four of my sky cams. Possibly extra strong due to the special magnetic orientation of the Earth that lets more energy leak through in September. Video shows north, east, and south sky cams. West cam was just a high altitude purple glow and is not in this...
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    Bunny and Buho Drama

    Bunny is lucky ----- This time. Two cameras, forward and back angles. Added synthetic sound track to achieve better feel for video. You'd never actually hear the owl swoop by.
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    Doe Foraging

    Got a nice capture of a doe on one of my PTZ's that doesn't have a microphone. Plus it was too far away to have picked up good sound (200 feet). No matter, a fun dawdle in Final Cut Pro to add quicky ambience sound track and effects. It's not perfect, but better than no audio.
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    Friday night August 30-31 2024 Surprise Aurora

    Aurora activity on Friday night (Aug 30-31, 2024) seen from east of Seattle Although only KP2 energy was on the forecast, it actually went to KP5. Time lapse starts with highlights and then rewinds to show entire event. Break out your sky charts, and you will find Mars, Jupiter, and Uranus near...
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    More Aurora August 27 and 28, 2024

    Didn't expect anything, but noticed on sky cams. Ended up at KP5 and closer than 200 miles away.
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    Moonrise and Two Galaxies

    Look carefully and you will also see M31 (Andromeda) and M33 (Triangulum) galaxies before the moon rises. M31 looks like a bright star with fuzzy disc near top center. M33 is nearly center and appears as only a faint smudge that moves along with the stars Best viewed full screen with 4K...
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    Bucking the Storm

    An intrepid buck decided that tonight's thunderstorm was a good time to explore the neighborhood. Turn on your audio for this one. This video just didn't feel right without a soundtrack. So, I made one to match. Four layers of audio effects later, it is more fun to watch. I'm a bit early with...
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    Sky By Four

    Test of doing four sky cams as a single time lapse.
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    Printing up Another Pole Top Cap Camera Mount

    Needed another camera mount to go atop a 3 inch diameter camera post to accommodate another sky camera. I print these to mount two turret cameras on top of camera poles. Love being able to make these, but it's over a 24 hour long print. Black PETG has been holding up well on my existing ones...
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    Odd looking planes

    Here is one for you. Two planes, but with forward and rearward light beams. I could not figure it out, but one of the veterans thought it might be a mid-air refuel. What do you guys think? The video is at 20X speed.
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    Morning Aurora (August 4, 2024)

    Initially only visible through holes in the clouds, but wait until the clouds clear. The display would have been even more amazing were it not obscured by our Pacific Northwest Clouds.
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    Red Barons and What the Quack?

    This was a fun one to put together. I don't understand why ducks went through our intersection. We are NOT near a pond and we've never seen this happen before. Then again, we've had a heron on our back deck. Duck captures are not what the street cameras are set up to catch. So, the cropping was...
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    ISS Passes

    Two recent ISS passes caught on sky cam
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    Wildfire Detection On PTZ

    One of my cams is probably picking up glow beyond Mount Index (Washington state) that is IR being reflected off high altitude clouds near the Pioneer wildfire (about 80 miles range). I've see this before with our big 2015 Okanagan fire. Here is what the camera is seeing above Mount Index and...
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    POE Tilt/Pan Mount for Turret - Anyone Know of One?

    I would like one of my Color 4K-T cameras to change its tilt up/down near sunset and sunrise. I don't actually need it to pan, just tilt the turret up/down about 30 degrees. Does anyone know of a remote controllable tilt base that one could mount a turret upon? Alternative of a full PTZ camera...
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    Two Galaxies and Three Planets

    The security cams continue to impress. Three planets and two galaxies in one night. Triangulum galaxy only shows up as a faint smudge, but it is there in the frame. Andromeda was its usual easy to capture. The sky cam managed Jupiter, Uranus and Mars all within frame. Actually, viewing...
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