8k 360° Aurora

March 16, 2018 4:58 PM

A 1:10 timelapse of the Aurora Borealis over Fairbanks, AK by photographer William Briscoe (Facebook page), filmed as a 360°, 8k timelapse. Oh, plus a lunar eclipse.

via Digital Photography Review. If you don't have a VR display, you can click and drag to pan around the video as it plays.

posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The (6 comments total)

Aurora Borealis? In this part of Alaska? At this rate of speed? In this style of panorama? Localized entirely within the confines of this post?
posted by cortex at 5:10 PM on March 16, 2018 [11 favorites]

May I see it?
posted by guiseroom at 5:47 PM on March 16, 2018 [3 favorites]

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posted by CynicalKnight at 6:16 PM on March 16, 2018 [7 favorites]

I call BS on the eclipse. The aurora happens between the moon and the viewer, so the moon could not have been a dark spot obscuring the aurora. The lights would have illuminated that area too.

Nevertheless, very pretty and a nice video.
posted by sjswitzer at 7:03 PM on March 16, 2018 [3 favorites]

The photographer says it's a composite, since it's not possible to get the exposure right for both the moon and the aurora in the same shot.
posted by dhruva at 7:32 PM on March 16, 2018 [1 favorite]

I am also skeptical of this; I am an extremely strong and stoic man; nothing real can cause emotions in me; yet when I watched this I felt some kind of stirring deep within my soul; nothing real can cause this, least of all things that remind me of the simultaneously timeless and ephemeral nature of our common lived experiences, nothing; this video must be the work of some deceptive fabulist.
posted by compartment at 8:23 AM on March 17, 2018 [4 favorites]