The Hawaiian Heavens - On the Summit of Mauna Kea Time Lapse 3 

Thanks! Probably around 7-10 nights per year over a 4 year period.

Thank you for your kind words!

Thank you! Most of it was shot on a D800, D750, and D700, and a few on the D7000 even. For lenses, 2x 14-24mm f/2.8, 20mm f/1.8, 16mm f/2 for DX, and occasionally my 85mm f/1.8.

It's something called adaptive optics, which helps remove the twinkling in stars due to the Earth's atmosphere constantly moving around. The laser creates an artificial star above the Earth's atmosphere, which helps the telescope know how to correct for the twinkling. So that night they were observing something in Orion.

@@TheInfinityPoint this is really amazing technology and Orion is teeming with activity. I lived in Hawaii on Big Island and went up to Mauna Kea, it is breathtaking up there. Mahalo

@@leliu5thelement448 Do you want to know the secret as to why they do that? The real secret.

Hawaii is close to the equator.

@@aaroncompton145 indeed we can tell Equator is close since Sun is setting in a very vertical way ! (first seconds of the video) :)

Those scenes were actually shot in the moonlight with long exposures, which is why it looks like daytime.

That's the center of the Milky Way.

They use the lasers to calculate the atmospheric pollution. They then subtract it to rectify the final images.

Shooting stars asteroids going through space

@@welsh-cymru1588 pardon ? sorry, didnt quite understand :(

@@pierresteinbach4541 asteroids they are big space rocks going thousands of miles per hour through space it's what wiped out the dinosaurs their called shooting stars their not satellites

It's something called adaptive optics, which helps remove the twinkling in stars due to the Earth's atmosphere constantly moving around. The laser creates an artificial star above the Earth's atmosphere, which helps the telescope know how to correct for the twinkling. So that night they were observing something in Orion.

lol, you always have the option of muting the video and playing your own music if you have different tastes :)