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Sunrise at 35,000 feet

1,512 views · Published 8 March 2012 · 7:13 · Indexed 30 September 2026

Channel: cplai · 2012 · Travel & Events

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Watching sunrise at 35000 feet above the Pacific Ocean through the window of a Boeing 757.

The twilight above the clouds was interesting. Multiple dim burgundy lines first appeared on the horizon. They turned out to be layers of distant clouds hugging the curvature of the Earth back-lit by the sun below the horizon. The first light broke through one of those layers. 

See also my other sunrise video from Maui, Hawaii @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hka9nzzg0vg Same camera, different time and place.

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Production details:
All the shots was taken on a Canon PowerShot SD8000 IS.
The smudges and scratches on the airplane window confused the camera auto-focusing mechanism, thus some of the shots were out of focus. The camera was set to focus at infinite, yet the autofocus was still wrong sometimes especially during video recording.
A vertical band appears in video when the camera's sensor was saturated by the bright light of the rising sun. Such artifacts do not exist in the single shot photos by the same camera.

The movie was created by Movie Maker in Google's Picasa which stitched the photos and videos into a movie.
The background music is a classical piece Suite II composed by J.S. Bach. It was played by my 14 year old daughter at a very unusually slow tempo. The music was recorded by Garageband running on an iPad attached to a MIDI keyboard. Garageband converted the MIDI to a AIFF sound file in m4a format. It is then converted by MPEG StreamClip into MP3 format because Picasa does not accept m4a file for the audio track. I could have done a better editing job on iMovie. I was just too lazy to transfer all the photos and videos from my PC to a Mac. Picaso was adequate. There is no complaint since it is free-ware.

See my other aerial videos at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJx5FGtCHfKg9S0FhWZyymoLRVB9kDYh7

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