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Wide view of galaxy in the night composing of stars, many meteorites, planes

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Directly overhead in the northern hemisphere after midnight in summer, the Milky Way is clearly visible in the center of the frame, dust clouds countless light years away obscuring many of the stars. There are so many stars in our galaxy alone that, when looking towards the center of it in person, the countless points of light compose a picture of endlessness and indescribably numerous of star systems, planets, and celestial phenomena.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
7 seconds and 13 frames.

Over the boreal forest are the distant Northern Lights

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The view over sub-arctic woods at night. One of the last areas this far north with any significant light pollution (man-made light that has a significant impact on the darkness of the night), the Northern Lights are observable in the distant thermosphere, around 65 miles above the Earth. This clip contains the lowest amount of transforming aurora in the entire collection.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
7 seconds and 65 frames.

Night lightning illuminates passing thunderstorm – content warning for epilepsy

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The thunderstorm moves past the frame, right to left. The lightning illuminates the cloud stochastically as the city, outside of the frame, lights the clouds from below constantly. Leaving behind some of itself as it passes overhead, the ‘cell’ is moved by outflow from other storms.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
12 seconds and 1 frame.

Moonlit night with heavier clouds above a desert

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…Landscape and highway with cars headlights, comatics. Car headlights travel quickly along the highway, which is at the foot of some mountainous foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The moonlight provides illumination to the towering, massive clouds overhead, and the orangeish headlight brightening of the lower portion of clouds is observable.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
8 seconds and 10 frames.

Behind a rocky landscape the Milky Way galaxy

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The Milky Way rotates above in the night sky above the Nevada desert in a cloudless night. Only a shrub and stones comprise the foreground that the setting moon illuminates.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
8 seconds and 13 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.

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.

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.