Timelapse Video Captures a Year of Incredible Night Sky Views

By Nancy Atkinson - May 06, 2013 09:40 PM UTC | Observing

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This beautiful new timelapse video might have folks heading in droves for northern Michigan. Shawn Malone of

Lake Superior Photo

put together this incredible video -- her first attempt at a timelapse compilation, believe it or not -- using over 10,000 photo frames showing 33 different scenes of various night sky events from northern Michigan over the past year. "It took a year to shoot and a bit of tenacity and persistence to get this into a form of coherent electrified cosmic goodness," Malone wrote on Vimeo. And did she ever capture cosmic goodness: auroras, the Milky Way rising and setting, meteor showers, a comet, and even aurora and lightning together in one scene. Just gorgeous....

North Country Dreamland from LakeSuperiorPhoto on Vimeo.

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and through this program, she has the opportunity to share her passion of space and astronomy with children and adults through presentations and programs. Nancy's personal website is nancyatkinson.com