Timelapse of stars with clouds zooming by overhead

Tag: dark

  • 1 of 5 | Night lightning illuminates approaching…

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    Scene notes:

    Ominous, towering, coming towards the point of view. These night clouds, partly shrouded by mid and high-level clouds, would not seem so intimidating if they are not flashing with cloud-to-cloud lightning- different from heat or sheet lightening, cloud-to-cloud lightening is full-power energy release, only it never touches the ground. That’s the main difference in the name of this versus cloud-to-ground. The city orange lights illuminate stratus and silhouette the growing clouds which appear to light up from within, naturally strong light pollution from a large city.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    18 seconds and 13 frames.

  • Winding snow in a Canadian Rockies valley in the winter mid-afternoon

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    Scene notes:

    Shadows from mountains in Jasper National Park become longer as the day lengthens. A large number of glacial cirques can be seen on the snowy cliffs.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 1 frame.

  • Above mountains, above clouds, the night sky…

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    Scene notes:

    … is seen in deep dark colors of stars 1 of 2. Above a cloud which is caught on the mountain it shrouds this night, the stars whirl. The low cloud has motion blur due to the exposure length. The clouds roll leftward at high speed, only the slightest outline is illuminated by moonlight. The Milky Way is slightly visible. There are at least four airplanes that speed through the night.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    7 seconds and 24 frames.

  • A thin cloud cover overlaps the night sky above mountains in bottom fifth

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    Scene notes:

    A 50mm lens at open aperture (f1.4). Far above a mountain peak, a mid-level cloud layer gradually works its way into the frame, silhouetted in the dark night sky. Coma (comatic aberration) is present at moderate levels.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    7 seconds and 13 frames.