A Greece-based collective of photographers and tinkerers known as the Pentalunex Team has developed the ChronoCon, seen above. The deceptively simple-looking contraption is essentially a monorail version of a dolly track, and using some sort of proprietary motorized mount, the Pentalunex Team is able to capture stunning video combining HDR with time-lapse and motion.
Check it out in the video below. The part starting at 1:55 is nuts—to see human activity taking place while the stars move fluidly in the background really gives you a sense of our planet revolving through space in a way you've probably never perceived before.
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