This time lapse movie shows a complete night at Paranal
Observatory , in the Atacama desert (Chile). You can see the
four 8m telescopes and the four 1.8m telescopes of the Very Large
Telescope working during the same night. This time lapse is rather
'rare' for two reasons. First because it was made in '3D' using two
cameras taking pictures simultaneously in order to recombine them into
an anaglyph
time lapse movie. And second, because some clouds appeared during the
night, which is rather uncommon at Paranal, and added a 'plus' on this
3D movie. The telescopes and domes were lit by the moonlight. Note that the ISS (International Space Station) crosses the sky during the very first seconds of the movie.
You will need Red/Cyan anaglyph lenses to view this movie in 3D. You
can purchase several for a few Dollars/Euros on the internet or try and
make some with transparent colored plastic sheets (just make sure your 'red' side does not see part the cyan part of the image and vice-versa). Alternatively, in order to view
this movie without any special lenses, I have mounted the two movies
'side by side' here. The following 'side by side'
version of the movie can be
watched in 3D if you know how to 'separate' the focusing and vergence
control of your eyes. I do personally prefer to use
a piece of cardboard
as shown here to make this viewing easier, each eye
seeing
then only one movie at a time ... just wait for your brain to 'merge'
the two views in a single 3D view. This can only works if the distance
between the center of the two movies on your screen is not bigger than
your eyes separation, ie less than 60-65mm (otherwise you would need to
make your eyes-axis to diverge ... this is normally not possible or
painful).. I have sized the movie so that this happens on the different
screens I have used.