Night of the Perseids- 4.5 hours of stars, planes, sattelites, and a few meteor streaks, in 20 seconds. The greenish glow is called "airglow" which is caused by "various processes in the upper atmosphere of Earth, such as the recombination of atoms which were photoionized by the Sun during the day, luminescence caused by cosmic rays striking the upper atmosphere, and chemiluminescence caused mainly by oxygen and nitrogen reacting with hydroxyl free radicals at heights of a few hundred kilometres." cool beans

Toward the end of the video you see Jupiter and the Pleiades rise above the horizon. The Andromeda Galaxy is also visible to the right of the Milky Way.

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A time-lapse of clouds over the foothills of the Front Range showing the dynamics of wave clouds with a few cumulus clouds as well. The video demonstrates movement that our eyes don't sense well when we take photos of these clouds- slow shutter speeds often fail to catch their clarity.

View is from the University of Colorado Mountain Research Station looking towards Mount Thorodin in Golden Gate Canyon State Park near Golden Colorado.

First video upload for me- I replaced a previous upload of this, as it was a large clunky mov file.

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