Time lapse star rotation with cirrus and moonbow 720p HD V08471

[KVideos21]

the moving lights, are they meteors or airplanes?

[jcmegabyte]

@KVideos21 Nearly all the really bright ones are aircraft, but the faint and really fast ones may be satellites or meteors. It's amazing how much action there is going on in the sky all night long =)

[ododidit]

what is that blue thing that appears at 22seconds?

[ododidit]

@ododidit

nvm i see its lense reflection :)

[jcmegabyte]

That's a "lens flare" - a reflection of the moonlight bouncing from one of the lens elements to another. Most people don't realize that many camera lenses (especially zoom lenses) are made of many (13-20 is typical) physical internal glass lens elements which can bounce light back and forth when the light source is shining directly into the lens. Note that the blue thing (and a number of smaller ones) track along with the moon's movement, in the opposite direction of the moon's travel... :-)

[thesk8didas]

realy in love with moon n stars .. it never change since my childhood .. so when i look at the sky, it remind my childhood..

[JcmdiStockFootage]

I like how it is so reliable too. I can remember nights out camping as a kid, looking up into the moon-lit sky from a sleeping bag. :-) Oddly, I've heard on some science shows that it's slowly leaving Earth's orbit and will eventually (like millions of years from now) spin off out into space, leaving us moonless. Definitely a weird thought! :-O

[mulleolsen]

MIND BLOWING

[jcmegabyte]

There were some really cool moonlight refraction events recently - I'm glad I was around to capture them! Thanks for checking it out :-)

[123eldest]

Incredible :D

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much for watching! :-)

[rosmarinusofficialis]

This is very good. I must try out my new Canon next time we have a clear sky.

[jcmegabyte]

Definitely post your results, too! :-)

[chihuahuabulldog]

That is so neat how the clouds came up! Were those stars, comets or what that were shooting across the sky? Great video, again!

[jcmegabyte]

Pretty much everything you see speeding across the scene are aircraft. We really get a LOT of air traffic around here with so many big airports in the region, plus the major FAA flight corridors overhead bring plenty of high-altitude traffic as well. Right near the end of the sequence there is a quick metoer trail, but it's nearly impossible to spot without frame-by-frame playback. There is also a large, slow-moving blue "object" which is a lens reflection of the moon :-)

[chihuahuabulldog]

@jcmegabyte I tried to keep clicking the stop and play near the end of the video. Was the meteor trail around :52 and at the very bottom of the screen? Oh, I figured that was the moon, but didn't realize it was a reflection!!! Oh well.

[jcmegabyte]

The meteor is at 0:56 in the center left of the screen. It's just a fast "blip" like a star. There is also a streak and trail too, but it's impossible to see even in HD after YouTube upload/conversion.

The moon is the large white blurry object rising to the right, and the lens reflection is a smaller white/blue spot descending exactly opposite the moon. You can tell it's the moon's reflection in the lens. Composited versions coming soon which might make it easier to see. :-)

[chihuahuabulldog]

@jcmegabyte Thank you. I was not able to see it, just as you suspected. I look forward to the coming versions. Thank you again.

[maha77]

the thief left it behind

the moon

at my window

-Ryokan

[ForeverHeaven1]

Wow! Lets me see what I miss at night! Thanks for sharing. =)

[jcmegabyte]

Definitely! I see all sorts of interesting stuff in these all-nighters! :-)

[JTlovesDexter]

Beautiful ; )

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks!  =)

[Fire666Hell]

How can you have such beautiful nights in California?

[jcmegabyte]

They're rare here in the city, but once in a while when the conditions are just right we can have some really nice night skies! :-)

[AlterEgoTrip]

My son loved this one... and I see that there must have been some jet trails.. there.. they look a certain way..

[jcmegabyte]

I'm glad he liked it :-) I think that many of the cirrus-like clouds which slid by in this one were old jet trails - there were many of them the day and evening before this night. If they stay up there long enough they can mutate into completely natural-looking cirrus formations, making it nearly impossible to tell them from natural clouds. It's fascinating to watch if you have the patience for it :-)

[IllPropaganda]

Aces!

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks for watching! =D

[UPTHElRS]

caught the live version a few nights back, one of the biggest moon ring i've seen. thanks for sharing,

take care

[jcmegabyte]

Yep - the ring was pretty intense at times in this night, but unfortunately I think it was mostly after the moon slid out of the shot :-)