Galactic Soup

JimFox

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Watch the sky as this timelapse runs, there is some crazy galactic things going on in this sky at night.

From Factory Butte a little over a week ago. My goal was the clear skies for doing Deep Space Astro, but I also made sure to set up in a place where I could do some timelapses while my Deep Space was going on. The winter Milky Way isn't quite as grand as the Spring to Fall Milky Way, but shooting to the West, the Milky Way holds it's own I think.

Now the sky in this is crazy, it reminded me of Galactic Soup! There is so much turmoil going on in the sky while the Milky Way peaceful and gracefully moves through the sky. I hadn't noticed any of the turmoil while capturing these, so I was really surprised after I put the first part of the timelapse together.

This is approximately 2500 images in this. The night portion was shot at typical Milky Way night settings. ISO3200, 25 secs, f1.8 with the Sigma 14mm f1.8 lens on the Nikon D850. Assembled in Photoshop and topped off in Movavi. :)

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AlanLichty

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Very curious skies - any chance there were some very thin high level clouds overhead? Most of the sky "activity" seems to be in the same general direction as the cloud movement.
 

JimFox

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Very curious skies - any chance there were some very thin high level clouds overhead? Most of the sky "activity" seems to be in the same general direction as the cloud movement.
Yeah, I have seen lot's of night skies, but never one that seemed like it was a cauldron of activity like this one. There wasn't any clouds at all overhead, I didn't see any clouds being captured in my Deep Space Astro images, so that's what makes this so odd. I guess it must be some clouds, but it certainly doesn't look like clouds. Maybe some hyper active Sky Glow?
 
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