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Time-lapse on beach under partly cloudy skies…

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… with multiple layers of colorful glowing clouds at dusk. Looking up from a beach on Kauai, there are different cloud layers to be seen above. As the sky darkens, the upper-level clouds are illuminated from below. These small rain showers are common on the island chain where surface heating makes them bloom in the sun during daylight and dissipate at night. The lower storm cloud is raining moderately out-of-frame.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
12 seconds and 12 frames.

Alto, cirrocumulus above while panning on the wild…

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Castellanus clouds (castle top clouds) are named for their towering appearance; these mid-level clouds have the most intricate and brilliant lighting while shapeshifting above the wild forest hills at sunset, oranges, golds, pinks, purples, and pale blues.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
7 seconds and 21 frames.

Drone hovering at sunset into dusk, mid-level cumuliform clouds

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Time-lapse length (30 fps):
11 seconds and 26 frames

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.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
7 seconds and 18 frames.

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.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
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.

Drone hovering into dusk, Sacramento skyline under…

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… after-sunset lighting on high clouds. This mid-level cloud layer dominating the sky with small patches has clouds resembling Lenticulars. If the layer of cloud were thicker in its altitude, the lens shapes would be more apparent. A wispy row of Cirrus is absorbed in the cooling sky, pink colors fading with them, and below on the surface, a highway curves by a skyline of Sacramento, and extend west with lights of individual cars passing by in hyper speed; 90 x 60 mph = 12900mph apparent ‘playback’ speed. 90 represents the speed of the time-lapse over ‘real’ time. The Time-lapse length of the clip at 30 fps is eight seconds and ten frames.

Rapid dusk and fast pink windy multilayers

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There are vibrant and pink-gold midlevel clouds around 10,000 feet, or 3,000 m. Almost half the upper left frame is occupied by the vaporous clouds at their level where the sun is still shining. At the lower levels two thirds of the way to ground, the sun has already passed behind other clouds. These medium to heavy lower clouds move in from the right against the upper levels which move opposite. The scene darkens as the clip progresses past the halfway point, but small areas of distant sky persist into blue hour.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
13 seconds and 5 frames.