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vikas chander
India
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My channel contains timelapses of the night skies as well as model and real railways....
Namibian Nights
Namibia,
Vast empty landscapes which stretch from horizon to horizon and as far as the eye can see.
A long coastline where the deserts meet the oceans, deadly by nature and a graveyard for countless shipwrecks. Rock formations, desert dunes, quiver and camel thorn trees dot the landscape along with ghost towns and industrial decay.
They all come together to provide compelling foreground subjects against which to frame the night skies and the over 300 cloudless nights a year, makes Namibia a dream destination for astrophotographers.
I visited Namibia in 2018 and recently in 2022 and the timelapses seen here were shot over these two trips.
Vast empty landscapes which stretch from horizon to horizon and as far as the eye can see.
A long coastline where the deserts meet the oceans, deadly by nature and a graveyard for countless shipwrecks. Rock formations, desert dunes, quiver and camel thorn trees dot the landscape along with ghost towns and industrial decay.
They all come together to provide compelling foreground subjects against which to frame the night skies and the over 300 cloudless nights a year, makes Namibia a dream destination for astrophotographers.
I visited Namibia in 2018 and recently in 2022 and the timelapses seen here were shot over these two trips.
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2021 ReWind
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2021 Rewind!! 2021 was a tough year for everyone. Lock downs and curfews were part of everyday life. It made travel difficult and dangerous as well. I got a few opportunities to travel to dark skies for astrophotography but not as much as I would have liked to. The year also marked my foray into deep sky astrophotography. 2021 ReWind presents some of my images I shot during the year and while I...
NIght of the Perseids
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The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. The meteors are called the Perseids because the radiant from which they appear to hail, lies in the constellation Perseus. The shower is visible from mid-July each year, with the peak in activity between 9 and 14 August, depending on the particular location of the stream. During the peak, the rate of meteors reach...
Wadi Rum
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Wadi Rum is everything you’d expect of a quintessential desert: it is extreme in summer heat and winter cold; it is violent and moody as the sun slices through chiselled siqs (canyons) at dawn or melts the division between rock and sand at dusk; it is exacting on the Bedouin who live in it and vengeful on those who ignore its dangers. For most visitors, on half- or full-day trips from Aqaba or ...
Benital Total Lunar Eclipse
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It was with great excitement that i had made my way to Benital, near Karanprayag, Uttarakhand to try and capture some timelapses of the impending Total Lunar Eclipse of 31st Jan 2018. Unfortunately a cloudy evening on the day of the eclipse totally ruined all my grand designs.... Nevertheless, Benital was a nice location to be in with a majestic view of the Himalayas and Trishul. I shot a numbe...
Hess Observatory Namibia
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H.E.S.S (High Energy Stereoscopic System) is a system of Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes located in Namibia, near the Gamsberg, an area well known for its excellent optical quality and seeing conditions. H.E.S.S. has five telescopes, four with a mirror just under 12 m in diameter, arranged 120 m apart from each other in a square, and one larger telescope with a 28 m mirror, constructed in the ...
2018 ReWind
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Heavens On Earth - ReWind 2018 As the year comes to an end, i can't help but reflect on the incredible astrophotography journey i embarked upon nearly 3 years ago from the dry lake bed of the Sambar Lake in Rajasthan, India. Astrophotography took me to the beautiful island of La Palma in the Canaries, the American Southwest and the Namib Desert, the tropical islands of Maldives and Langkawi and...
Roque de los Muchachos La Palma
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The Roque de los Muchachos Observatory lies atop the highest point on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands. The seeing conditions for optical and infrared astronomy is one of the best in the Northern Hemisphere, alongwith the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii. The site also has some of the most extensive astronomical facilities which includes the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias, the world...
Heavens on earth - Namibia
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The land God made in anger ..... Namibia. Namibia is one of the least densely populated countries in the world with negligible light pollution, dry SQM22 skies which are clear over 300 days in a year. Add to that the spectacular landscape on view and it becomes an ideal destination for nightscape photography. In September of 2018, i spent 12 nights under the dark skies of Namibia, drove about 4...
Heavens on Earth - Namibia Trailer
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12 nights..... 4500 kms.... 25000 images.... Heavens On Earth....Namibia!
Heavens on Earth - Road to Drang Drung
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In may of 2018 i set out to shoot the Zanskar valley in Ladakh, India. This video showcases the road trip into the spectacular Zanskar valley....
Heavens on Earth - Hanle
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50000 Raw images... 20 days and nights of imaging..... 15000 ft above mean sea level... 11% effective oxygen levels... Sub Zero temperatures.... Heavens on Earth ......Hanle. Imaging Processing and Music ..... Vikas Chander
Heavens on Earth - Hanle
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I would probably rate Hanle in Ladakh the ultimate astrophotography destination in the world with its Class 1 Bortle Scale night skies. I spent 20 nights under the skies of Hanle, in two sessions of 10 nights each in April and September. I came away with nearly 50000 images and over 100 timelapse sequences, which i am slowly processing into a finished product.
Heavens on Earth - Gemininds Meteor Shower 2018
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The Geminids are a meteor shower caused by the object - 3200 Phaethon. The meteors from this shower can be seen in December and usually peak around December 13-14 and upto 120-160 meteors can be seen per hour under optimal conditions. The meteors in this shower appear to come from a radiant in the constellation Gemini (hence the shower's name). On the nights of 13th and 14th December, i travell...
Heavens on Earth - Moab
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SouthWest Utah is one of the few places in the USofA under truly dark skies. Add to this the number of national and state parks which abound in this region, it is no wonder the area appears on the bucket list of many Landscape and Astro photographers. I had the good fortune of spending 12 days and nights in Moab, and ended up shooting over 25000 images. The resultant timelapse video below does ...
Heavens on Earth - La Palma Trailer
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Heavens on Earth - La Palma Trailer
A fabulous video, not too many trains, great photography and editing and a wonderful choice of music. Just right for somebody who isn't particularly interested in trains.
so they work the uygurs to death with ancient equipment? that's so much better!
Superb wonderful documentry bro
Wirklich klasse Anlage , nur wo ist sie ? Danke
I have some 2011 China steam videos on my channel: ua-cam.com/video/vajQsUwo7yU/v-deo.html
Hello, what year was this filmed?
2014
ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE the time & MONEY it musta took to build this WOW. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍
This is a fantastic record of an extraordinary place. I was lucky enough to visit twice. You have captured the essence.
❤ nice bro 👍
Probably use the very coal they mine
You spoke in a way that seemed to have been written
आप ऐसे बोलते हैं कि लगता है कि आपने पाठ पढ़ लिया है
This layout still blows my mind, is it still around?
Steam still kicks ass, what can I say
If those old darlings can do the work and the coal mine provides the fuel its perfect common sense.who is right and who is wrong in this argument.?millions of internal combustion engines world wide causes the worst pollution.its the elephant in the room that governments wont adress.
the thing is that it's not a government problem, If it's a effective thing then everyone will go for it. it's something that depends on the democracy of the country. It's because of this "Government does not care" problem that we have many heritage railways today, It's a Good for bad depending on the view of things
This ts perfect! What a masterpiece!
Last commercial use was until 2005 and last industrial use was until 2022, right? Amazing.
They mothballed their last locomotive on January 14th 2024
I bet OSHA would like to have a chat with the owners of that mine. And China plans to quadruple their amount of coal fired power plants while western countries pay through the nose for new power sources that don’t work well and quickly fail.
"Quadruple"? No. Right now they're slowing down on coal increases and focusing on increasing renewable energy.
What at all would OSHA have to do with China???
The now-retired fleet of steam locomotives is fascinating, of course. But what is even more striking is the setting: to call it a moonscape risks a slander suit by the moon. And lest we forget, the Xinjiang region of China, where the gigantic strip mine is located, is the same region where the Chinese government has systematically oppressed the Uygur population in recent decades.
Now they are retiring, too.
Nooooooo that's sad and why are they retiring
@@rickanshaunaremior7653 Because the new diesel locomotive is coming. In December 2023, another steam locomotive collided with a truck at a railway crossing.
Woooo
Nicely compiled!
Nice
Как они добиваются такой эффективности? Практически нет дыма на некоторых машинах. Как сжигается уголь так чисто?
чисто? Если для тебя это чисто значит ты не видел все видео.
guessing it has to do with the quality of coal used
The lack of visible smoke is what efficient burning is supposed to look like. The cause is that the coal is burning completely. When smoke is black, that is because of small unburnt particles being carried with the smoke.
My channel has a number of Chinese steam videos: ua-cam.com/video/qpEJmFjas9E/v-deo.html
свою функцию выполняет и выполняет дешево.
okay for those that are complaining about how this damages the environment, this video is 9 fucking years old. They are not in service anymore. Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
wrong, China still uses steam to this day, just that Sandaoling was torn up earlier this year
@@thecapisoffyt so is the US, and so is some other countries. What is your point?
@@btfo420 i was talking about China, they still use steam just not in Sandaoling as they torn up the tracks there earlier this year
steam is still involved in most of the world's power generation, and it's gonna take a major breakthrough of some sort to change that.
The coal mine is still in operation, even if the steam locomotives aren't.
The fireworks at night. Who gives a damn about efficiency? It's a coal train in a coal mine!!!!
I'm honestly suprised of the condition the tracks are in. Like it isn't phenomenal don't get me wrong. But its better than I expected.
Eh, nothing continuous like you would see from say, CSX. These rails still use Joints.
joints are better operate in cold environment, like in northern China close to Russia @@GamingAppleTheFirst
24:10 I guess there's no need for spark arresters as nothing is near the track but dirt, rubble, and little weeds.
So many sparks arise when blowing pipes with dust blowers installed in the firebox.
20:25 A nice contrast between the almost unaltered 19th century steam technology and, to the left, the shadow of a very 21st century drone that's actually doing the filming. It's great to have captured perhaps the last truly working steam trains in the world just a few years before their departure marked the very end of the age of steam transport - apparently in 2022.
17:08 ~ I think I can. I think I can ...
I mean, steam engines could still make sense, if we modernized them. Sure, they are not fast, but the power they can generate and the weight they can tow is more than impressive.
Upgrading steam locomotives and steam engines is a futile task.Their efficiency is less than 10%, increasing it above 15% will cost more than building a new diesel or electric locomotive. In addition, a steam locomotive is a very troublesome product to operate. It requires 5-10 times more frequent maintenance at the depot + it spends dozens of tons of coal and more than 10 tons of water every day. At one time in the USSR, starting in the 20s of the 20th century, steam locomotives were replaced by diesel locomotives on the Turkmen-Siberian Railway precisely because of the lack of water in the deserts of Central Asia. It's basically a desert here in China, too, and I think diesel engines or old electric locomotives are humming there right now. In Russia, old electric locomotives like this VL 23 ua-cam.com/video/HT_9r05ZZEE/v-deo.html are usually used to deliver ore or coal to the combine , and some veterans can only be seen in such work
By the way, the second VL22M veteran at the same Bakalsky mine ua-cam.com/video/_m7W1f6QSGU/v-deo.html
Steam engines can go 100+ mph
@@balddicknosedasscanoe An amateur is always visible from afar.SO, the locomotive is designed in such a way that both high-speed passenger locomotives and traction freight steam cylinders have the same number of operating cycles per minute at maximum speeds. An increase in the speed of steam locomotives is achieved by increasing the diameter of the driving wheels. Consequently, freight locomotives have more pairs of wheels (to ensure a larger contact area of the driving wheels with the rail when starting a heavier freight train) and they are 1.5-2 times smaller in diameter of the wheels of a passenger locomotive and lose about the same number of times to steam locomotives of equal traction power, thus 100 mph for steam locomotives - This is a real figure, but it is given by reducing the tractive effort and the number of wagons. Moreover, the ascent, into which the freight locomotive will calmly enter without loss of speed, will lead to the passenger losing speed, and the locomotive driver will be forced to "borrow water" from the boiler for lifting, and the stoker will manually pour coal into the corners of the furnace. Let's compare this with the work of a diesel locomotive, for example, an old diesel locomotive of the 1960s produced from the USSR TEP 60 , which replaced steam locomotives on passenger transportation in the USSR in the 1960s. And what do we see? A small diesel locomotive with an electric transmission has a design speed of 100 miles - 160 km / h, while the TEP 60 consumes 3 times more than a steam locomotive , only 6,400 liters of diesel fuel, instead of 20-30 tons of coal and 7-10 tons of water. Further, the mileage before scheduled maintenance of the locomotive is 3 times more than that of the steam locomotive and the locomotive crew of 1-2 people instead of 3 people in the locomotive, well , it is clear that the locomotive crew in the disel locomotive on our Soviet and Russian railways worked in a clean civilian suit, and on steam locomotives the crew looked like miners in a mine ua-cam.com/video/cLoOeMYc5iU/v-deo.html
I wonder if they are rail nerds in China🤔
almost certainly. with such an massive and important rail network
Of course there are, but most of them have lung cancer ...
I don't blame china, saves money on buying newer trains when that budget can be spent on civilian rail and cargo lines from the inland to the coast
This in the 21st century. Congrats China...
well china also has the world's largest high speed rail network at 35,000 km compared to the US' 735km
@@saucycade123 I know. But that doesn't cancel this thing out...
well it's a coal steam locomotive in a coal mine. i think it make sense
why replace something that works perfectly fine?
@@saucycade123 which constantly has horrific accidents, like trains coliding and derailing ..
14:35 Homeboy almost got flattened by that wheel
Когда Артем попал со свей командой в Каспий
Appears to have American sound horns, also very similar to NZR J & K class loco horns.
Yeah sounds similar to our J class. K class have higher pitched whistles than this I'd say
That’s because they use 5 chime whistles that are based on the American Star Brass manufacturing company’s standard 5 chime whistle.
Unfortunately they were retired in 2022
1800 th centry technology still going strong.
either 18th century or the 1800s XD
These were built in the 1970s and 80s
@@SouRwy4501Productions tbf he said technology from 1800 not built in 1800
For a coal mine, there is no better. They run almost for free! Since 3/4ths of all the planets electricity is produced by coal fired furnaces driving steam turbines, the coal mines have no reason to switch to diesel. Chug on steamers! Chug on forever!
About 1/3 of global energy comes from coal, not 3/4. Sandaoling has also stopped using coal powered steam locomotives in 2022.
@@DaveBeSalty It was in reference to electricity production. The locomotives are very few still burning coal. Most steamers were converted to fuel oil long ago.
@@indridcold8433 Only 37% of global electricity generation comes from coal, thats closer to 1/3 than 3/4... and this number is rapidly decreasing as we finally move away from coal to renewables. Coal is dying, and good riddance.
Very nice beautiful fantastic locomotive powerful 🚂🚂🚂🚂
12 hour shift in this hell
EEERRM, hang on I'll just turn off my TV and unplug it, ah thats better I know that I am saving the world so that places like this can bugger it all up !!!
The average US household uses up electricity daily comparable to running this locomotive for 4 minutes, if the electricity is coal sourced.
We have all been lied to and the environmental crisis is completely fake.
@@alfwedarf7764 You are not very bright are you?
@@Pandatoofu Yes I am, clearly I see through deceptions.
@@alfwedarf7764 Nah you cant you seem mentally disabeld.
что тут вообще твортся
Вот куда делись паровозы СССР.
FOR those that don't know, steam powered energy actually is significantly more better than most modern energy. Steam locomotives actually barley produce any harm to the environment, although they burn coal it comes out clean and vaporized. I want us to revert back to steam as much as possible and to invent synthetic coal. Not only are steam locomotives extremely powerful and reliable they burn clean and actually is good for the air. They are high cost in management because they last so long and have heavy and strong parts. It is worth it, as some steam locomotives have been running for decades with minimal repairs. In most cases, steam wins.
Lmao that’s not how any of that works. What do you think is created when coal is “vaporized”?
Geez Louise! Just look at that brown smoke coming out and tell me it’s all nice and clean! If it’s so healthy, how come station interiors were covered in black soot?😂
The smoke is brown.
Coal power plants are around 35% efficient. A steam locomotive is around 10%.
No, they do not win. They produce less harm than diesels in terms of exhaust, but compared to electric, they are worse assuming the plant providing the electricity is reasonable (though they are still better because of the scale; power plants are far better in producing power per ton of material than any steam locomotive.) They are high cost because it takes so much to keep one going, compared to a diesel which requires far less maintenance and man hours to keep in actual operational usage on the line, meaning you can have less locomotives for the same amount of tonnage hauled due to less downtime spent maintaining and steaming. Steam locomotives are very powerful, but diesels are better. Steam locomotives are less efficient in burn, less thermodynamically efficient, are not easy to have multiple locomotives running on one train (the whole reason of Garret's and articulated steam locomotives is because it meant more power without trying to have two crews handle the train) and do not produce their peak power from standstill, only finding their peak power once they have attained speed (can't haul as much). The only point I can give you is, against a diesel, steam locomotives produce less harmful exhaust, as coal is primarily CO2, whereas diesel has NOx, HC, CO2 and such, but again, as was found during dieselization, you could run less locomotives and still run the same tonnage due to less down time which could lead to less emission, but I can't be bothered running the numbers. This is all without mentioning electric locomotives which are even better as they are theoretically gain their power all from a centralized engine (a power plant) in comparison to a diesel where each carries their own less efficient engine. This is coming from someone who loves steam trains by the way.
Great program. I'm using silver 9 version, but still have much to learn with this program. Possibilities is endless.