The Sky in Motion
Still need to come up with a good new year's resolution?
Consider one appropriate for 2009, the
International Year of Astronomy;
just look up -- experience, learn, and enjoy the changing sky.
This 4-minute, time-lapse video is
composed from a series of 7,000 images highlighting
much of what you could see.
Arcing through the sky in a stately reflection of
planet Earth's
own rotation are
Moon,
Sun and
stars.
But the sequence also features
satellites and
meteors streaking overhead,
clouds moving
along the horizon changing in a beautiful
iridescence, and beaming
crepuscular
rays.