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3 of 3 | Night skyline of Miami dwarfed under

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… reddish-tinged clouds from city lights as they pass by over. Demonstrating the power of city lights in the night sky, long exposures show the bright illumination of passing rain clouds. These clouds are too stable or short to create lightning, but can make massive precipitation, as is nearly every day in the summer in this part of the state of Florida. Their massive size is shadowed but easily seen in the upper-right. Helicopters or light airplanes are seen flying along the skyline’s altitude.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
9 seconds and 1 frame.

2 of 2 | Very light cloud catches the moonlight, forming an ice ring halo around it

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Cirrostratus (layered stratus) appears to be the right density and altitude (in this function, as a distance from the observer), to create a halo made of frozen vapor, an optical illusion.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
13 seconds and 17 frames.

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

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The sky, three-quarters of the frame, is full of stars, and the high foothills that comprise the start of the southern tip of Sierra Nevada build towards the right side. Light pollution in the bottom left of the frame lights some thin clouds, which move slowly against the spin of the planet.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
8 seconds and 19 frames.

Lesser known arch moved towards at night under stars

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Night in the Alabama Hills near Mt Whitney, the arch is silhouetted by a starry night.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
7 seconds and 18 frames.

Over Canyonlands viewpoint, the moon slowly

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…sets with Cirrus clouds moving overhead. Cirrus clouds, a thin layer of water 40,000 or so feet in the sky, pass quickly by with motion-blur due to the long exposure, which allows the illumination of the moon to be magnified on the desert vista below. Since it is so far below, the Canyonlands view stretches a vast distance, and the many stars of the night sky move as the Earth spins, and the moon with it, towards the horizon and out of the clouds.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
8 seconds and 11 frames.

1 of 4 | Over the Bay, planes land at San Francisco…

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…Airport, SFO at night under rainy clouds. Continental traveling airplanes are seen landing over the bay diagonally across the frame. The bright lights of a few are visible among the other city lights, taxiing for takeoff or to their gates. In the bottom quarter of the frame the water moves, and reflects the light of the clouds, illuminated in the city’s lighting. The lower stratus clouds bring rain on the city across the water.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
9 seconds and 18 frames.

Above Sierras flanked by other close cliffs, the night darkens

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Mid-level clouds float over the point of view in the night, a starry sky above the mountains, which strongly rise on the left. A glacier of packed, icy snow resides in a distant slope near-center. The altostratus varies in its coverage of the sky; it ebbs and flows.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
9 seconds and 28 frames.

3 of 4 | Over the Bay, planes land at San Francisco Airport, SFO at night under rainy clouds

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The continuation of another clip. The camera position and exposure has been adjusted.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
10 seconds and 1 frame.