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15 seconds and 28 frames.
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1 of 2 | Comet Neowise, as the night sky appears…
Scene notes: Appearing to rotate, it is the Earth that spins. 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 original images allows this. Meteorites can be observed in digital frames, as well as airplanes, zooming by in just a few frames.
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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 lights. This side street the observer looks down is dimly lit and mostly empty, a steep downward slope.
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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 quickly.
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Winding snow in a Canadian Rockies valley in the winter mid-afternoon
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Shadows from mountains in Jasper National Park become longer as the day lengthens. A large number of glacial cirques can be seen on the snowy cliffs.
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1 of 3 | Low clouds moving at night over mountain range in moonlight
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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 distance.
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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 to the city lights in the landscape below on the lower-right of the frame. Now clip# NGT087.
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3 of 3 | Aurora Borealis are the Northern Lights
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…which strobe, creep, and flow in the night sky. The continuation of another clip. High Cirrus, highlighted in red by normal light pollution from one of the most northern towns of Alberta, 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 outline of trees in the bottom-right of the frame.
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Above mountains, above clouds, the night sky…
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… is seen in deep dark colors of stars 1 of 2. 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 four airplanes that speed through the night.
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7 seconds and 24 frames.