My 2-minute music video looks back at some of the celestial highlights of 2013, in images and videos I captured.
Some of the events and scenes I show were accessible to everyone who looked up. But some required a special effort to see.
In 2013 we had a couple of nice comets though not the spectacle hoped for from Comet ISON. Chris Hadfield became a media star beaming videos and tweets from the Space Station. We on Earth could look up and see his home sailing through the stars. The sky hosted a few nice conjunctions of planets, notably Mars, Venus and Jupiter in late May. The Sun reached its peak in solar activity (we think!) unleashing solar storms and some wonderful displays of northern lights. Locally, record rain storms in Alberta unleashed floods of devastating consequences in June, with a much publicized super moon in the sky. For me, the summer proved a productive one for shooting the "star" of the summer sky, the Milky Way. But the year-end finale was most certainly the total eclipse of the Sun on November 3. Few people saw it. I did, from a ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The video ends with that sight and experience, the finest the sky has to offer.
I hope you enjoy this music video mix of time-lapse, real-time video and still images, shot from Alberta, New Mexico and from the Atlantic.
Clear skies for 2014!
– Alan, January 1, 2014 / © 2014 Alan Dyer
