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.
The YouTube video can be unmuted for a montage experience.
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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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
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
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
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
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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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