A rather large (7MB) animated gif of the sunrise - organized by Colleen and her Macro Maniacs of Singapore
The animated gif and the mpg video were made using an ImageMagick utility, convert, which does all things. Click to download mpg video (.5 MB)
#How to build a video (mpg of animated gif) from a sequence of files. #First I make a subdirectory where I copy the images (avoid destroying the originals) #In this case the files are unprocessed Nikon images: dsc_????.jpg where ???? #is the image number. The following code is in a script file: make_video. #I put this in the video directory and then execute it. Takes a few min to build the video # for i in dsc*.jpg do echo $i #convert -despeckle $i tmp #convert tmp -gamma 1.25 $i convert -unsharp "3.0 0.5 0.0" $i tmp convert -resize 640 tmp $i done convert -delay 25 -size 640x480 dsc_*.jpg aug_30_singapore_sunrise.mpg convert -delay 25 -size 640x480 dsc_*.jpg aug_30_singapore_sunrise.gif
A view of Malaysia in the early morning - and Saturn in the upper left
The loading dock next door
Early sunrise
The start of sunrise
Sunrise birds
First reflected sunlight
Second reflected sunlight
Third reflected sunlight
Fourth reflected sunlight
Progress with the sunrise
Flying over the sun
Sun without aircraft
Flying under the sun (obscured by the clouds)
C. Frank Starmer