Milky Way Time Lapse Video

This is a time lapse video of the Milky Way rising in the south east sky, viewed from Death Valley. The Milky Way is our own galaxy, a thick spinning disc of stars with arms that thin as they spiral outward. Our Sun is located in one of the arms. When viewed from our Suns location, the Milky Way appears as a broad band across the sky. The Milky Way is not aligned with the plane of the ecliptic, so it is not parallel with the paths that the moon and Sun follow across our sky. The central core of the Milky Way, which is the thick disc-like center of the galaxy, lies on the right side of this video. Some satellites and planes can be seen briefly in the video, along with a few shooting stars (meteors) near the bottom of the frame just before dawn. This was shot with a Canon 1Ds Mark III digital SLR camera over a period of about six hours, and is composed of about 500 photographs.

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[Antilepton]

Physics is f***ing amazing!

[Jacob Balta]

Must be smaller, maybe an electron.

[Kev Beardsley]

Wow, brilliant.



[manchesterman1988]

haha how can any body dislike this video fucked up world

[chiantee593]

it's hard to find a light-polluted free area near where I live :c

[Chris Bailey]

What where the camera settings, aperture, ISO etc, thanks, awesome vid btw :)

[SpecialeSpatiale]

Nice! Man I really have to travel...that or get myself a telescope lol

[SpecialeSpatiale]

I hope to find places like these...I see a lot more stars in my area compared to where I lived before but I'm still too close to the city so I don't see enough lol

[badderthanyou]

What lens and settings did you use?

[liam corbett]

you can sort of see it. at a dark sky site, the milky way will appear as a bunch of blotches across the night sky, like spilt milk (hence the name milky way).

[weirdmindedmonkey]

its not true that you cant see em with your eyes. the stars disappear in the near of cities because of the light, when you go to places far away from cities youll see skies like that..like in the desert or on the ocean=)

[Vanessa Xo]

Is this real? it's absolutely incredible!