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Uploaded by on Jul 4, 2011

Clouds and sky both show illuminating changes during this time lapse video from the south of Australia. In the foreground are scenes visible over a rocky coastline toward the Southern Ocean. Dark clouds flow across the sky, sometimes from different directions, sometimes blocking background starlight, but other times causing stars to appear to flare as they move in front. In the first sequence, looking toward the southwest, a nearly vertical band of zodiacal light is seen at sunset just before the band of the Milky Way Galaxy appears to settle into the sea. Soon the unusual dark patch of the Coal Sack Nebula can be seen on the Milky Way band, near the famous Southern Cross. Later, looking toward the southeast at about 2:10 in the video, Orion can be seen rising appearing nearly perpendicular to how it rises in northern skies. The composite video, winner of an award STARMUS astrophotography competition, took over a year to compile in 2009 and 2010 from over 30 hours of exposure. Mini-mystery: what are those lights moving along the horizon?
Image Credit & Copyright: Alex Cherney (Terrastro); Music: Redmann

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  • Is it okay if I use this video? I'll give you credit :)

  • @xilent234 Image Credit & Copyright: Alex Cherney (Terrastro); Music: Redmann

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  • Can't you be jealous of the people who lived on this beautiful planet even just 100 years ago? When the sky was not polluted, the air was clean and everything was beautiful and mesmerizing. Thumbs up if you love to see all those starts every time you look up to the sky.

  • amazing video really awesome

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  • @darklord2626 everything is moving

  • wow that was cool. good job, thanks for sharing.

  • Isn't it wierd to think that the sky isnt moving, but the Earth is?

  • I solved the mini-mystery: at first, those are ships, then on the island it's cars of course :P

  • 1 retardado não gostou deste vídeo

  • Amazing video! Great work! Witch camara did you used to make this video!?

  • The one person that didn't like this video was simply mad because it would not load.. I feel sorry for them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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