The night sky is bright in long-exposure time-lapse.
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Majestic and fleeting, practically ephemeral…
Early night in the boreal forest
No alternate video source Scene notes: A single object flys overhead in the night sky, likely a solitary airplane in the early night above the boreal forest. SKU/clip number: NGT083 Time-lapse length (30 fps): 4.5 seconds.
Very low-density clouds in the moonlight on rocky…
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Under a moonlit night sky, stratus clouds ascend Mt Whitney and the Sierras, but only with enough to meander. The mountain range is snowy and steep, fully lit with the moon. The night sky is starry, and in the bottom tenth of the frame, the rocky hills are at the foot of…
Aurora Borealis float slowly in the distant sky
View with alternate video source Scene notes: The beautiful Northern Lights, slow and lingering in the sky due to a little bit weaker solar activity from prior discharges of the sun. Peaceful over the Boreal forest in northern Canada.Time-lapse length (30 fps): 12 seconds.
The Boreal forest in Canada at night
View with alternate video source Scene notes: Aurora can be faint, so much so that it is only detectable by long-exposures. In this timelapse, normal light pollution at left gives way to a reddish Aurora, over the beautiful Boreal forest in northern Canada.Time-lapse length (30 fps): 11 seconds.
Timelapse of stars with clouds zooming by overhead
No alternate video source Scene notes: Airplanes can be seen later in the sky. Clouds quickly fly by in this sky, leaving stars.Time-lapse length (30 fps): 8 seconds.
Timelapse of stars over mountain with a thin cap cloud
No alternate video source Scene notes: Airplanes can be seen later in the sky. A thin blanket-like clouds flows on a wind about the peaks under the stars.Time-lapse length (30 fps): 8seconds.
Seattle downtown at night
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Seattle downtown from the south at sunset
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In one of the briefest Night clips, the city is shown from south of downtown getting darker while lighting up with building lights as night falls. Helicopter and cars are seen zooming by in the distance.Time-lapse length (30 fps): 1 minute 14 seconds.
2 of 3 Frame of Aurora Borealis transforming, glows…
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An exemplar clip of greener Northern Lights typical of northern latitudes during a solar maximum. Long exposures and low ‘coma’ (comatic aberration). Temps: Sub-zero (F) at ground-level.Time-lapse length (30 fps): 25 seconds and 23 frames.
2 of 2 Above mountains, Mt Whitney at moonrise…
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After a while the sky awakens as the bright moon just before dawn, sends pink colors captured by long exposure on Mt Whitney and surrounding peaks.Time-lapse length (30 fps): 7 seconds and 24 frames.
Night over mountains and clouds
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A very active thunderstorm at night encroaches. The lightning in this storm is almost all cloud-to-cloud, so there are few ground-strikes. Traffic is seen speeding through the bottom of the frame as light streaks due to the long exposures.Time-lapse length (30 fps): 11 seconds and 8 frames.
1 of 3 Low clouds moving at night over mountain range in moonlight
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Sometimes a high wind gust will come along and cause the tripod to move slightly. In these rare instances, the clip may be stabilized digitally or divided in two. This shot of the Alabama Hills at night under a nearly full moon has a cut that divides the scene into two clips,…
2 of 3 | Low clouds moving at night over mountain range in moonlight
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Mt Whitney is seen among its neighboring peaks in the Sierra Nevada range of mountains at night. With the long shutter speed of three seconds and an interval of five seconds and clouds quicy float overhead. The stratus clouds floating high enough fly over, the lower ones are caught and piled up…
1 of 2 | Foothills under a night sky of clear stars
View with alternate video source Scene notes: A starry night sky on a gently rising slope leading up in the lower fifth of the frame. In the lower left corner, light pollution yellows a thin layer of clouds, and the sky spins left-right. Along the landscape a car or two travels around at a low…
Early night above a boreal forest in Alberta, Canada
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A blue-graded night of stars overhead the forest silhouettes.Time-lapse length (30 fps): 3 seconds and 4 frames.
1 of 5 | Night lightning illuminates approaching…
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Ominous, towering, coming towards the point of view. These night clouds,…
Night moonrise at Grand Canyon looking northeast
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From a point in Grand Canyon, the horizon may be level, but the land isn’t; this is owed to the nature of the geography of the surroundings of the National park. The bright object illuminating the landscape is not the sun, but the moon. A long exposure captures the light for a…
San Francisco Bay Bridge traffic at dusk with skyline behind traffic and bay
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From a unique viewpoint on Yerba Buena island, the Bay Bridge has two directions of traffic on different levels, and is a gateway into the city. The skyline is silhouetted on the evening light. The daylight is left with the sun and transitions to night, and thousands of cars and vehicles pass…
5 of 5 | Night lightning illuminates approaching
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A single, silhouetted cloud at the left of the frames is…
Night sky galaxy with galactic cloud, meteorites, satellites, airplanes
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Deep in the desert next to a small face of rocks and stone, jaggedly sticking out into the backdrop of stars. The crop moves to enlarge the galactic cloud slightly. The very faint light pollution in the distance does not intrude into the sky’s features. A variety of objects can also be…
1 of 2 | Comet Neowise, as the night sky appears…
Scene notes: Comet Neowise passed by Earth in the summer of 2020. The comet’s tail is a fine contrail in the starry sky. Near the horizon, where it seems stationary in the rotating sky, the frame is enlarged using digital pan ‘n scan, a nineties term, meaning digital zoom. The extra resolution of the…
San Francisco street-view of downtown at night
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Looking down a side-street in mid-town San Francisco at a view of several large buildings including a sharply-pointed skyscraper called ‘Transamerica Pyramid’, an ominous looking building of office space and nearly 900 ft (300 m) tall. Busy city streets, with mid-2000s cars, cross paths, as traffic alternates turns moving with the traffic…
2 of 2 Clouds at night illuminated partly by city…
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The Big Dipper, the famous constellation, is observable at the top of the frame. The lower left corner has stratus clouds, but the sky is otherwise clear. A couple of airplanes can be seen flying through, under a starry night sky with a long exposure of several seconds and interval of just…
Dusk-to-night over rocky landscape into stars and blueish darkness overhead
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Sunset with pink clouds rapidly changes to blue hour and nighttime, a huge boulder field is silhouetted on the sky, which has high clouds that evaporate in the night quicy.Time-lapse length (30 fps): 20 seconds and 24 frames.
1 of 3 | Low clouds moving at night over mountain range in moonlight
View with alternate video source Scene notes: A night over a rocky landscape, winter mountains under a small bank of clouds include Mt Whitney. Very small, lower clouds rapidly roll in the sky in the upper frame with the stars in the blue moonlight. Mt Whitney is shown as a snowy saw-toothed ridge in the…
Silhouetted hill side by a city suburb at night
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What makes these scudding lower clouds so bright? Lights from nearby Walnut Creek impose their light from below on them, incandescent and brightest where the city itself is. The brightened clouds silhouette the trees of the hillside, as airplanes pass overhead rapidly. The sky has stars, and their number pales in comparison…
3 of 3 | Aurora Borealis are the Northern Lights
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The continuation of another clip. High Cirrus, highlighted in red by light pollution, stand against the bright green of the northern lights. It is likely coincidence that makes the clouds and Aurora seem connected in some ways at parts of the sky. There is no ground horizon shown exempt for a small…
2 of 2 | Comet Neowise, as the night sky appears…
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The continuation of another clip with blue color grading.Time-lapse length (30 fps): 6 seconds and 14 frames.
Above mountains, above clouds, the night sky…
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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…
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