Cielo y agua / Sky and Water

Based on the work Sky and Water, 1938. Woodcut. LINK: Youtube

Beautiful Time-Lapse Footage Of Red Aurora Australis

Red Aurora Australis from Alex Cherney on Vimeo.

{Description from the person that posted this.} LINK, Via: Vimeo After chasing it for more than two years I was finally rewarded with two displays of Aurora Australis (Southern lights) within a week visible from Mornington peninsula, not far from Melbourne. The nights were warm an clear and the Moon was not in the sky either - I could not have asked for better conditions. The red color of this aurora is caused by the charged particles from the Sun exciting oxygen atoms high in the Earth's atmosphere. Hopefully there will be more to come as Sun's activity increases in 2012-13. Being able to photograph it all night I came up with a nice video. The brighter Aurora happened on January 22nd and the smaller one, featured in the middle section, was from January 16th, followed by a rather bright Moonrise. Images and blog: terrastro.com/blog/red-aurora/ Time lapse motion control performed with Dynamic Perception Stage Zero ( dynamicperception.com ) Music: Coral Reef by Psychadelik Pedestrian toucanmusic.co.uk/releases/release.php?q=tou274

Touch the sky HD (Skydiving) by wasim_raider

Song by HADLY. Clips from IMAX Adrenaline Rush and IMAX Advantures in wild California. LINK: Youtube

Maui Sunset

Sunset in Maui. LINK: Youtube

Nature in Norway, Northern Lights in Tromsø, in HD

Nature in Norway, Northern Lights also called Polar Lights or Aurora in Tromsø, in HD
An aurora is a natural light display in the sky, particularly in the polar regions, caused by the collision of charged particles directed by the Earth's magnetic field. An aurora is usually observed at night and typically occurs in the ionosphere. It is also referred to as a polar aurora or, collectively, as polar lights. These phenomena are commonly visible between 60 and 72 degrees north and south latitudes, which place them in a ring just within the Arctic and Antarctic polar circles. Auroras do occur deeper inside the polar regions, but these are infrequent and often invisible to the naked eye. LINK: Youtube

Lantern Festival in Taiwan: The Sky Lanterns at Pingxi

A trip to see the sky lanterns in Pingxi -- truly a unique Taiwan experience.
The music is from a Heavenly Melody album: "Suzanne plays Heavenly Melody" favorites on Erhu (the Chinese erhu is that 2-stringed, violin-like instrument you are hearing) The title of the song is 平安夜裡真平安 (Silent Night, Peaceful Night). LINK: Youtube

The Unbearable Beauty of the Night Sky

Take a DEEP BREATH before watching this ESOCast mashup with Dr. J. The Sun is setting behind Cerro Paranal in the Chilean Atacama desert. While astronomers get ready to observe with ESO's Very Large Telescope, Nature prepares for her own grand display. As night falls over the desert, the southern sky reveals its nocturnal beauty, leaving the spectator in silent amazement. Some people, however, don't just stare at the spectacle. With great skill, they record these unique moments for everyone to see - they are the photographers of the night.

Anyone who has been up at night in a remote, high place such as at one of ESO's observatories in Chile may have been lucky enough to experience the splendid view of the myriad stars shining brightly from the heavens. It is a both a dream and a challenge for a photographer to capture an image of this incredible view. Today we will focus on three ESO staff members, who, during their free time, produce outstanding astrophotography. By publishing their results on the internet they share their enthusiasm for the astonishing wonders of the southern skies with a wider audience.

Yuri Beletsky is an ESO Fellow and astronomer at the Paranal Observatory.
When not observing with the world's most advanced telescope, the VLT, he actively lives out his passion for taking pictures of the southern sky.
"I like the night sky, I like stars and the night sky is so beautiful, you can see millions of stars and astrophotography is the best way to show the people what actually stars are, so taking this picture I share my passion with people and I am showing the sky then."

More at the LINK: Youtube

Sky

Sky from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

Best to view this HD time lapse in full screen. Filmmaker Philip Bloom shot this in Dubai over five days and nights, capturing the luminous grandeur of the city; music is “Xibalba” from The Fountain by Clint Mansell.

Philip’s blog is a great resource for HD-DSLR aficionados. Via: Neatorama

Legless Paratrooper

"After losing both his legs to a terrorist bomb, paratrooper Alistair Hodgson begged a comrade to put an end to his misery. Yet that horrific incident 17 years ago started an incredible journey which has led him to become one of the world’s best skydivers. The 39-year-old is the British National Freestyle Skydiving Champion and in August will compete against able-bodied sportsmen and women for the world title. His remarkable story has echoes of Douglas Bader, the World War II pilot whose feats were described in the book and film Reach For The Sky after he returned to flying despite losing both legs in an air crash. And he hopes it will bring hope to soldiers left paralysed and limbless while fighting in Afghanistan. ”If I can inspire just one other person to lift themselves out of that same dark place I was in – train for the Paralympics in 2012 or something, then it’s worth it,’ he said.” LINK

StarGazer

Take a spectacular trip into space watching real time-lapse images of the night sky. The video sequences are created using a recently-developed compositing technique, which adds individual still frames together, making residual light from previous frames continue on into subsequent frames, resulting in trails left by bright objects in the sky.

Many aircraft navigation lights and even a few meteors are captured in the 8000+ frames used to make this movie. LINK: Presurfer, Via: Youtube

The Skybike

“Skybike: is a custom made bicycle that you ride upside-down. This unusual position of riding creates the illusion that you are riding on the sky.”

Marios Diamantis thesis project for the ITProgram 2009. LINK, Via: Youtube

Cartwheel in the Sky

This is the magnificent Cartwheel galaxy, a stellar structure which measures more than 100,000 light years across.

It was released to promote a 24-hour webcast from observatories around the world, marking the International Year of Astronomy.

The kaleidoscopic galaxy lies 500million light years from Earth, and its unusual shape is due to a catastrophic collision with one of the smaller galaxies on the lower left hundreds of millions of years ago.

The smaller galaxy produced compression waves in the gas of the Cartwheel as it plunged through it, which triggered bursts of star formation, lighting up the rim.

Link, Via: Neatorama

"Sky, Sunset, Clouds Pictures"

The color of the sky is a result of diffuse sky radiation. On a sunny day the Earth sky usually looks as a blue gradient - dark in the zenith, light near the horizon.
Sunset is the time at which the sun disappears below the horizon in the west. The sunset is often more brightly coloured than the sunrise because there is more dust at the end of the day than at its beginning.

UV Absorbing Filters
Ultraviolet filters, sometimes called sky filters, provide a basic reduction in the UV light found especially at high altitudes where the UV-absorbing atmosphere is thinner. UV light causes a blue colour cast in photographs or loss of detail, particularly when photographing over long distances in either colour or black-and-white. Haze caused by UV light should not be confused with haze caused by airborne particles such as smog. The latter absorbs visible light as well as UV light and is not removed by a UV filter. Ultraviolet filters are made with a variety of absorption levels with some tinted to give added warmth and better colours. UV filters may be left on the lens as protection against dust, moisture, scratches, fingerprints and breakage. LINK