The night sky is bright in long-exposure time-lapse.
Time-lapse of the night sky: collected from frames with exposures over seconds instead of the usual hundredths during the day. There are similar, but not identical, clips.
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You can also see all clips of Night on one page with the quick viewer!.Day-to-night (& into day) transitions
This contains Mt. Shasta, Lake Tahoe, Mt. Rainier, the Alabama Hills, & San Francisco. These day-to-night transitions are of varying speeds and lengths… read more
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San Francisco Bay Bridge traffic at dusk with skyline behind traffic and bay$129.00 -
Dusk-to-night over rocky landscape into stars and blueish darkness overhead$129.00 -
Mount Rainier night to morning with climbers and their small lights ascending$129.00 -
Dusk-to-night over Boreal Forest into stars and distant Aurora on snowy woods$129.00 -
Sunset-to-night of downtown-midtown San Francisco skyline view from hill$129.00 -
Day to night to dawn on Mt Shasta in winter$129.00
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The Moon and Optical Effects
The full moon is easily bright enough to create a halo around it when water vapor forms a thin cloud at the right altitude… read more
The Galactic Cloud
The galaxy appears to our observations to be a giant saucer shape since our solar system is inside a relatively pancake-shaped spiral of stars and a growing number of other found solar systems…. read more
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Night sky galaxy with galactic cloud, meteorites, satellites, airplanes$129.00 -
Widest view of galaxy in the night composing of stars, many meteorites, planes$129.00 -
Behind a rocky landscape the Milky Way galaxy composed of countless stars move as Earth spins at night$129.00 -
Night sky galaxy with galactic cloud, meteorites, airplanes$129.00 -
Night sky Milky Way galaxy rotating with no clouds, air and spacecraft as well as meteorites$129.00 -
The Milky Way galaxy in long exposure time-lapse capturing space/aircraft and many stars$129.00
Storms of the dark, light flashes
The arch in the Alabama Hills near Mount Whitney at night shows a hole into the sky resembling a portal… read more
Note: Flashing, strobing lights in Storms of the dark and Aurora Borealis… read more
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1 of 5 | Night lightning illuminates approaching thunderstorm$129.00 -
5 of 5 | Night lightning illuminates approaching thunderstorm$129.00 -
Night lightning illuminates passing thunderstorm$129.00 -
Night thunderstorm and lightning$129.00 -
2 of 5 | Night lightning illuminates approaching thunderstorm$129.00 -
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An offshore thunderstorm is illuminated by lightning and stationary due to no wind$129.00
Skylines of cities
Above cities, planes taxi to land or ascend after takeoff, their speeds far slower than when they are at cruising altitude. You will find cities in Day-to-night transitions as well…. read more
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San Francisco street-view of downtown at night$129.00 -
Very brief Seattle downtown from sunset to night from Space Needle$129.00 -
2 of 4 | Over the Bay, planes land at San Francisco Airport, SFO at night under rainy clouds$129.00 -
The Golden Gate at night with traffic flowing both directions and airplanes taking off in the night sky$129.00 -
3 of 3 | Night skyline of Miami dwarfed under reddish-tinged clouds from city lights as they pass by over$129.00 -
4 of 4 | Over the Bay, planes land at San Francisco Airport, SFO at night under rainy clouds$129.00
Over mountains
Certain clips use wide-open apertures to capture more color from stars and moonrises on the mountains. Exceptionally, with these open apertures… read more
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1 of 3 | Low clouds moving at night over mountain range in moonlight$129.00 -
2 of 3 | Low clouds moving at night over mountain range in moonlight$129.00 -
1 of 2 | Foothills under a night sky of clear stars$129.00 -
Very low density clouds in the moonlight on rocky landscape in front of snow-capped mountains$129.00 -
Above mountains, above clouds, the night sky is seen in deep dark colors of stars$129.00 -
A thin cloud cover overlaps the night sky above mountains in bottom fifth$129.00
Over a populated landscape, a canyon, and a lake
Mono Lake is made of extra salty and alkaline water, adding to the formation of unique tufas, which are limestone monoliths formed from springs and vents mixing with this kind of water…. read more
Arches, monoliths, comets, other landscapes
The arch in the Alabama Hills near Mount Whitney at night shows a hole into the sky resembling a portal… read more
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1 of 2 | Comet Neowise, as the night sky appears to rotate, it is the Earth that spins$129.00 -
Early night above a boreal forest in Alberta, Canada$129.00 -
1 of 3 | Low clouds moving at night over mountain range in moonlight$129.00 -
Silhouetted hill side by a city suburb at night$129.00 -
2 of 2 | Comet Neowise, as the night sky appears to rotate, it is the Earth that spins$129.00 -
Above Jasper Park mountains, dim aurora and night sky$129.00
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Aurora Borealis aka Northern Lights
What makes seeing the aurora borealis so special? It is not easy to describe the northern lights with words, in any way. In the context of the winter night in the wild woods… read more
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Green and shimmering northern lights above cloud cover coming to blanket the night sky$129.00 -
Slow night clouds move over sky and distant feint glow of Aurora Borealis$129.00
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Green and Shimmering Northern Lights$129.00 -
3 of 3 | Aurora Borealis are the Northern Lights, which strobe, creep, and flow in the night sky$129.00 -
Over Boreal Forest are the Northern Lights$129.00 -
1 of 2 | Green and shimmering northern lights above trees$129.00