Aurora (Northern Lights) Part III

I want to thank all Youtubers for the positive feedback to the first northern lights video in this series. It has been favorited more than 9000 times so far. Many ask me about the techniques: I developed a ultra light sensitive color webcam that hourly generates time lapse movies. At the moment we have five cameras of this type running in different countries. This is another movie from the camera in British Columbia, Canada. It was taken on Jun/28/2006 and shows northern lights in a summer night. There are some bright clouds near the horizon on the left. These are noctilucent clouds. Noctilucent clouds are the highest clouds in the Earth's atmosphere, located in the mesosphere at altitudes of around 82 km (50 miles), and are visible only when illuminated by sunlight from below the horizon while the ground and lower layers of the atmosphere are in the Earth's shadow; otherwise they are too faint to be seen. Noctilucent clouds are not fully understood by science today. Look for this kind of clouds in a summer night. You may spot them near the northern horizon when you live in the northern hemisphere in a latitude between 50 and 60 degrees.

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• aurora
• northern
• lights
• noctilucent
• clouds

[UgieandYak]

Your vids are great, but you have to tell us, what are the lights that zig zag, circle, and just plaing jump all over the place? Helicopter(s)?

[06solareclipse]

These streaks are from insects flying near the camera . There is a spotlight next the the camera that illuminates the insects.

[iconicist]

i seen lights in the night sky kind of like this except they were grey and looked like clouds. they would keep dissapearing and showing up in random places. does anyone know what this is?

[sandraliofficial]

BEAUUUUUUTIIIIIIIIIIIFUUUUUUUL­LLLLLL

[svenXDsven]

And again you caught a nice meteor like the first part :)

[Forricat]

I fink u've catured a meteor as well.. at 0:13.. nice job btw!!

[antonioWiseGuys]

haarp

check it out

[arnolcosto]

yes, its an U.F.O.

[arnolcosto]

amazing

[ActiveStorage]

why there are both rotating and stationary stars in the sky? :\