The beauty of Yellowstone is world - renowned . But when the Sun goes down , it ’s a dissimilar brute on the whole .
embellish crossroads between Idaho , Montana , and Wyoming , Yellowstone National Parkis the United State ’s oldest national park . It ’s home to wolf , bison , elk , bear , geothermic release , waterfall , a supervolcano , and some rather divine skies .
This supervolcano , the Yellowstone Caldera , is the largest volcano in the United States and towers at 2,805 meters ( 9,203 metrical unit ) tall and stretch over a space of 55 by 72 km ( 34 by 45 mi ) . It has not recrudesce for around 70,000 years , but its pulse geothermal vents serve as a constant reminder of its front – and its risk .
Yellowstone ’s red-hot springs give out a sigh . Harun Mehmedinovi?/SKYGLOW
This time - lapse TV , titledHades Exhales , is dedicate to Colin Nathaniel Scott , who died afterfalling into a hot springat Yellowstone just a few days after this video was filmed .
It was make as part ofSKYGLOW , a crowdfunded project that written document and explores the beauty of the night sky , in the Hope of raising consciousness about urban idle pollution . After all , it ’s estimated one - third of humanitycan’t see the Milky Wayat Nox because of surplus light defilement .
" As always , weather condition is a challenge for astrophotography and my first nighttime at Yellowstone grow out to be quite clouded , despite the weather reports , so I came back and had more luck next time , " director Harun Mehmedinovi?told IFLScience . “I used three Canon 5DSR / 5DIII cameras to capture as many shots as possible in the 7 to 8 hours of night that I had . With night timelapse like these , you need to film around 2 hours to get about 10 - arcsecond of footage , shot with 25 - second pic , at 30 - second intervals . "
While a video can never truly capture nature ’s smasher , this video is the next full thing to camping under the stars .
