How I created this movie:

First I bought a timer remote cord for my Canon camera. I found one at the ebay-store of terence's camera. It is some unknown brand, but its cheap and worked pretty well for me. (YMMV).

I placed my camera on a tripod inside a garden-house, facing the sunset. The camera was set to P-mode, ISO400 and filesize set to small. White-balance was set to cloudy. Its important not to use auto whitebalance. This will result in a movie that flickers. I focussed and switched to manual focus. If you leave it at auto-focus, the camera will try to refocus for each shot. When its getting darker, this will fail. I switched the image-stabilizer off, the save some battery-power. I'm using  a battery-grip with 2 2000mAh accu's, which should be more than enough power. Finally, I configured the remote control and set it to intervals of 10seconds. This didn't work anymore when it got darker at the end of the movie. The exposure-time then reached 15seconds. Next time I will change the the ISO-settings to 800 when it's getting to dark.

 I left my camera alone for about 3 hours, which resulted in 1100 pictures.

Being a linux-user, I converted the pictures into a movie using ffmpeg. TODO: Insert command-line instructions here. I learned the tricks at www.programmer-art.org. It was not necessary to compile ffmpeg under ubuntu 9.04. Under Windows the program photolapse can do the trick for you.

Finally I uploaded the movie to youtube. This resulted in a huge quality-loss. I need to re-upload this file using a different file-format.