Trail's End: Beautiful New Night-Sky Timelapse by Randy Halverson

By Nancy Atkinson - April 8, 2015 at 3:07 PM UTC | Observing
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Stunning views of the Milky Way, shimmering aurora, spectacular thunderstorms, flashing meteors, zipping satellies, stirring music, and spooky sprites and gravity waves .... they are all part of this wonderful new timelapse by night-sky guru

Randy Halverson

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"Trails End is a compilation of some of my favorite timelapse shots from 2014, with a few aurora shots from early this year," Halverson told us. "It was shot in Wyoming, Utah and South Dakota."

A few moments to note in the video:

:56 Bolide Meteor 1:01 Aurora at Devils Tower and throughout video 1:33 Two Bolide Meteors Meteors With Persistent Trains 2:29 very fast and short persistent train to right of the Milky Way, a better one at 3:20 2:43 Final Boost Stage of GSSAP and ANGELS satellites 2:55 Owl sitting in tree 3:00 Pink Aurora in the sand dunes of Wyoming's Red Desert 3:14 Sprites and Gravity Waves

See more images and details at Randy's website,

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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