This is a selection of nightscape scenes I put together for entry into the 2012 David Malin Awards. The awards are for images of the night sky and landscape captured by Australian astrophotographers. I am very happy and honoured to report that this video won 1st prize in the ‘animation’ category at the 2012 awards. A number of interesting sky and space phenomena are included in the clip: 1. Comet Lovejoy. 2. Exploding Meteor and Train. 3. A Total Lunar eclipse from start to finish. 4. Multi coloured air glow in the upper atmosphere and ionosphere. 5. Lightning storms. The images were shot over the last 2 years. I’d like to thanks the following people/groups for helping bring some of these scenes to life: 1. Thomas Bethell – Little Bramper (1st and last scene) 2. Dynamic Perception – Dolly and MX2 controller 3. David Gargadennec - 5 camera rig and camera assistant (Bungle Bungles scene 1:19). 4. Stephen Van Vuuren for supporting the multi-day/night timelapse effort (behind the scenes rig shot 0:34) This is a preview of a larger project I’m working on documenting night scenes from the southern hemisphere – principally in Western Australia and Chile. Why there? Well I live in the former and work on and off in the latter, so that is where I spend most of my free time. Also included at 1:19 is a panoramic timelapse using 5 cameras configured to capture a 360 x 195 degree view of the sky. The technique is still experimental, with some work still to do to eliminate processing artifacts. Aside from those issues, the output is a beautifully sharp 8k print. Hope you enjoy. ps. If you'd like to know more about my projects you can follow me here: https://www.facebook.com/ColinLeggPhotography https://twitter.com/colinleggphoto https://plus.google.com/112350127289601016285 Music Credit: Nocturnal (Redux) by Unkle