Dark-sky park Poloniny | Slovakia (timelapse)

[bpanko]

Hi there!
After 2 years I am here with another time-lapse from Poloniny! Hope you like it
It's not perfect but considering my equipment and budget... I'm satisfied.

YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9emEiTCjWOk
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/234114936

[mikeyj1]

Very nice Boris, you mention the camera and lens, but not the mount, what was it?

And the music fits it really well, thanks for sharing!

[bpanko]

Oh, you are right, thank you, I will add it right now!

It's DIY motorized barn-door tracker and it's the very new think in my equipment so I totally forgot about it... 

[happy-kat]

That's come out very clear. Was that created from a series of single exposures?

[bpanko]

Yep, many, many pictures. Well, I don't know about some other way how to make timelapse, do you?

[happy-kat]

Yes of course :-) for some reason I thought it had been created other wise can't think why now.

Your barndoor tracker sounds interesting have you motorised it using Arduino and a stepper motor?

[bpanko]

No, that's quite too much for me, I don't know how to use arduino, saddly.

It's 6V geared motor(it should have 1rpm but it is broken in some way and it have only about 0,56rpm) with 2 additional gears and of course some screw (I don't know how to translate it better, sorry). I will take a photo of it tomorrow if you want as I don't have much time now. I can also find specific info about parts in my excel sheet if you want (but I can't promise that I will tell you everything as it's horrible to translate this terms... ).

EDIT: So here are some photos:

[happy-kat]

Thank you for sharing your photos. I am always interested in other people's barn door trackers. 

Mine currently is manual I turn a handle. I don't know how to code Arduino but found an existing code for a barn door tracker so will be copying that when I motorise my existing build, I have all the parts but missing a cog to connect the motor to the other drive cog, I will have to fabricate something for there when I get around to it.  When it is all working will be the fun of trying to get the code right to give 1rpm.

I hope you can work out why you are getting .56rpm

[bpanko]

Saddly, I can't help you with it. As I mentioned I don't know how to work with arduino and stepper motors. But I  think that if you ask at some forums around you can find somebody who will be willing to help you. But good luck, I hope it will work!

18 hours ago, happy-kat said:

I hope you can work out why you are getting .56rpm

It's just very cheap motor from china for around 10€ so as it was not in use for a year something went wrong and it's like this today. But that's not a problem as the gears solved this problem.