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The sunrise is making gold and pink saturation of overhead passing clouds.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
11 seconds and 24 frames.
Towering clouds at dawn with virga
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Towering clouds at dawn with virga
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Drone hovering at sunset into dusk, mid-level cloud…
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…Clouds still lit from below. Hovering above the city (bottom-right) Sacramento. Mid-level clouds with light from below the horizon’s sunlight.
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2 of 2 Facing west at sunset from a viewpoint…
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Scene notes: … of light rays through darker clouds slowly shifting. This is a slower clip with a very short interval and faster shutter speed. Crepuscular rays shine when there is a higher humidity in one area, but not necessarily very humid in the entire observable atmosphere around the observer. As the clouds move, the shadows defining the light rays move with them. The rays trace a path from the sun to the ground, and to the observer, the angles shift more the further the light path reaches from the sun.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
9 seconds and 17 frames. -
3 of 3 | Just beyond the tree line where some dusk fog is blowing on wind
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The continuation of another clip.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
9 seconds and 9 frames. -
2 of 2 Light shafts created by taller altocumulus…
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…mid-level clouds at sunrise. UAS hovering at altitude at dawn. Altocumulus Castellanus are ideal clouds for creating light rays that persist. First, their presence in the sky indicates moisture at the medium levels. As droplets glow in the sunlight, areas of thicker cloud create the shade necessary for the ‘light ray’ to show with definition. Since Castellanus clouds have these small patches of thick density, stark sunbeams are cast toward the camera’s general point of view.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
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1 of 2 light shafts created by taller altocumulus mid level clouds at sunrise
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Night in the Alabama Hills near Mt Whitney, the arch is silhouetted by a starry night.
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Drone hovering at sunset into dusk, Sacramento skyline
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A nearly five second clip of a sun setting far in the distant hills behind a city’s skyline. A highway is seen with traffic moving on it far into the shaded urban landscape below, complete with the UC Davis Health Center and hospital, traffic light quickly alternating traffic flow. The UAS captures two thirds of the sky in the upper frame. Behind clouds, the shadows demonstrate a takeover of the sky, where the sunlight once glowed on the lower fringes of these mid-level clouds.
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04 seconds and 27 frames -
Hovering at sunset into dusk, Sacramento skyline…
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…under cirrus, cirro-cumulus after sunset, flowing high elevation clouds. At these elevations, clouds are formed with tiny frozen crystals. As the movement is demonstrated in the one most aesthetically pleasing cloud, there is a flowing that is unique to the temperature of the cloud, highlighted with beautiful pinks. Sunsets like these where the sky illuminates clouds ‘from below’ prove the Earth is a sphere and not flat. The sunlight would be abruptly blocked by a sudden end to the Earth’s crust if it ended somewhere in the ocean. Instead, the light goes through more and more atmosphere the higher it reaches into the sky, until the sun sets from the cloud’s perspective as well.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
10 seconds and 25 frames.