A year’s worth of beautiful time-lapse photography of the southern sky

This beautiful video took over a year to put together in 2009 and 2010 , and it ’s made up of over 30 hour of exposure . Shot from the southern slide of Australia , it provide an awe - inspiring view of the southerly constellation .

This telecasting is the work of photographer and amateur uranologist Alex Cherney , who created it as part of his Terrastro Gallery . This special video , which features medicine by Redmann , won an awarding at the STARMUS astrophotography challenger . Here ’s a verbal description of what to look for in the video , courtesy of NASA :

Clouds and sky both show crystalise changes during this meter relapse picture from the south of Australia . In the foreground are scenes visible over a rocky coastline toward the Southern Ocean . Dark clouds flow across the sky , sometimes from different focal point , sometimes blockade background starlight , but other times causing wizard to appear to flare as they move in front . In the first sequence , looking toward the sou'-west , a nearly upright band of zodiacal light is seen at sunset just before the band of the Milky Way Galaxy appears to settle into the ocean . before long the strange dark temporary hookup of the Coal Sack Nebula can be check on the Milky Way banding , near the famed Southern Cross . afterwards , reckon toward the southeastern United States at about 2:10 in the video , Orion can be figure rise look intimately perpendicular to how it rises in northern skies .