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Very low-density clouds in the moonlight on rocky…

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A rocky landscape in front of snow-capped mountains. Under a moonlit night sky, stratus clouds ascend Mt Whitney and the Sierras, but only with enough to meander. The mountain range is snowy and steep, fully lit with the moon. The night sky is starry, and in the bottom tenth of the frame, the rocky hills are at the foot of the steep mountain slopes, which have shadows from the rare cloud that makes it over the ridges.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
23 seconds and 8 frames.

Timelapse of stars over mountain with a thin cap cloud

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Airplanes can be seen later in the sky. A thin blanket-like clouds flows on a wind about the peaks under the stars.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
8seconds.

Winter landscape with mountainous peaks in distance

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The high Sierra country under a mix of high and low clouds with a clean snow foreground in the mid-day sun.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
17 seconds.

Light clouds moving away in light blue sky with brief contrail

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An original, recently remastered time-lapse of the sky with clouds.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
33 seconds and 14 frames.

1 of 2 | Foothills under a night sky of clear stars

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A starry night sky on a gently rising slope leading up in the lower fifth of the frame. In the lower left corner, light pollution yellows a thin layer of clouds, and the sky spins left-right. Along the landscape a car or two travels around at a low speed, its headlights seemingly searching in the dark. Not facing in the direction of the galactic plane, which is the area of the night sky in which the majority of our galaxies starts are visible.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
14 seconds and 7 frames.

Night moonrise at Grand Canyon looking northeast

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From a point in Grand Canyon, the horizon may be level, but the land isn’t; this is owed to the nature of the geography of the surroundings of the National park. The bright object illuminating the landscape is not the sun, but the moon. A long exposure captures the light for a period of time to greatly intensify the brightness of the scene in comparison to the human eye. Smoke wafts in the canyon from a wildfire.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
32 seconds and 8 frames.

Night sky galaxy with galactic cloud, meteorites, satellites, airplanes

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Deep in the desert next to a small face of rocks and stone, jaggedly sticking out into the backdrop of stars. The crop moves to enlarge the galactic cloud slightly. The very faint light pollution in the distance does not intrude into the sky’s features. A variety of objects can also be observed in the night sky.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
14 seconds and 25 frames.

1 of 2 | Comet Neowise, as the night sky appears…

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Scene notes: Appearing to rotate, it is the Earth that spins. Comet Neowise passed by Earth in the summer of 2020. The comet’s tail is a fine contrail in the starry sky. Near the horizon, where it seems stationary in the rotating sky, the frame is enlarged using digital pan ‘n scan, a nineties term, meaning digital zoom. The extra resolution of the original images allows this. Meteorites can be observed in digital frames, as well as airplanes, zooming by in just a few frames.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
15 seconds and 28 frames.