Tem­po­ral Dis­tor­tion by Randy Halver­son:

Fea­tur­ing an orig­i­nal score by Bear McCreary (Bat­tlestar Galac­tica, The Walk­ing Dead, Eureka, etc) http://www.bearmccreary.com Thanks to Bear for tak­ing the time to do this!

Watch in HD
http://dakotalapse.com/?p=944 for more info and dig­i­tal download.

There is a 23 minute extended cut, avail­able for dig­i­tal down­load here http://dakotalapse.com/?p=877 The fea­ture is 23+ min­utes of Milky Way, Aurora and other night time­lapse, it has 2 orig­i­nal scores by Simon Wilkin­son http://www.thebluemask.com , as well as some from his roy­alty free collection.

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What you see is real, but you can’t see it this way with the naked eye. It is the result of thou­sands of 20–30 sec­ond expo­sures, edited together to pro­duce the time­lapse. This allows you to see the Milky Way, Aurora and other Phe­non­mena, in a way you wouldn’t nor­mally see them.

In the open­ing “Dako­ta­lapse” title shot, you see bands of red and green mov­ing across the sky. After ask­ing sev­eral Astronomers, they are pos­si­ble noc­tilu­cent clouds, air­glow or faint Aurora. I never got a def­i­nite answer to what it is. You can also see the red and green bands in other shots.

At :53 and 2:17 sec­onds into the video you see a Meteor with a Per­sis­tent Train. Which is ion­iz­ing gases, which lasted over a half hour in the cam­eras frame. Phil Plait wrote an arti­cle about the phe­nom­ena here http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/10/02/a-meteors-lingering-tale/ There is a sec­ond Meteor with a much shorter per­sis­tent train at 2:51 in the video. This one wasn’t back­lit by the moon like the first, and moves out of the frame quickly.

The Aurora were shot in cen­tral South Dakota in Sep­tem­ber 2011 and near Madi­son, Wis­con­sin on Octo­ber 25, 2011.

Watch for two Deer at 1:27

Most of the video was shot near the White River in cen­tral South Dakota dur­ing Sep­tem­ber and Octo­ber 2011, there are other shots from Arches National Park in Utah, and Canyon of the Ancients area of Col­orado dur­ing June 2011.

Equip­ment Used
Thanks to Dynamic Per­cep­tion for their sup­port and for mak­ing the Stage Zero Dolly. http://www.dynamicperception.com The best dolly made in many ways!

Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 60D
Canon 16–35, Tok­ina 11–16

Shot in RAW for­mat. Man­ual mode, Expo­sure was 30 sec­onds on most Milky Way shots, 15–30 sec­onds on Aurora. ISO 1600 – 6400 F2.8. 3 sec­ond inter­vals between exposures

Pro­duc­tion Assis­tants – River Halver­son and Kelly McIlhone

Open­ing title by Gus Winkel­man // Winkel­me­dia LLC // Con­tact Guswinkelman@gmail for cre­ative solutions

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Randy Halver­son
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dakotalapse@gmail.com
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