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As I can't post HTML at the moment I'm afraid I need to provide a link to my Flickr site. If you follow this http://www.flickr.com/photo_embed.gne?id=4713438163 you'll see a cactus flower opening up overnight (last night) captured using a Canon 40D and a TC-80N3 controller/timer. My first ever time-lapse animation - so be gentle

Greg

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Nexstar 11 GPS, 2 x Sky 90, M25C, MaximDL, Photshop CS3, Noel Carboni's Photoshop actions, 7 foot Pulsar fibreglass dome, Canon 40D, 100mm macro lens, 28-200mm zoom lens, 17-55mm f#2.8 zoom lens, 100-400mm zoom lens, 1.4x converter, 2x converter.
http://www.newforestobservatory.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12801949@N02/

I had a cactus once that made flowers...blossomed & died in the same day or something like that.

I would prefer more frames to the time lapse,but for your first atempt,it's very good.

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Imao cactus has got some of the most remarkable flowers, and yours (cybermystic) is no exception. I once had a big cactus (looking somewhat similar to yours) that got 5 yellow flowers so big that the cactus was fully cover by them. Sadly cactus tend to die shortly after they blossomed ... I guess that why I stopped having them. Anyway despite the few frames it is an interesting animation, so thx for sharing.

Yep - I've learned from this one that more frames would give a smoother animation

This cactus has produced several huge flowers twice a year for around the past 5 years - I really hope it doesn't peg out on us

Greg

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Nexstar 11 GPS, 2 x Sky 90, M25C, MaximDL, Photshop CS3, Noel Carboni's Photoshop actions, 7 foot Pulsar fibreglass dome, Canon 40D, 100mm macro lens, 28-200mm zoom lens, 17-55mm f#2.8 zoom lens, 100-400mm zoom lens, 1.4x converter, 2x converter.
http://www.newforestobservatory.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12801949@N02/

The information is very interesting.