Series from 2017
| Genres: | Documentary |
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When night falls, they come into their own: Astrophotographers portray the night sky in spectacular images. With their cameras they show celestial phenomena in a way never seen before.
In this episode, photographers John Goldsmith and Scott Murray head deep into the Western Australian Outback - with starlit nights and epic landscapes. They unravel the Aborigines' connection with the stars and want to witness a meteor shower at Wolfe Creek Crater.
This episode follows Bernd Pröschold, as he is bound for Scandinavia, in search of Europe's darkest night sky. Most people in Europe and the USA have never seen the Milky Way due to the light pollution of our civilization. Bernd is eager to show, what the night sky has to offer in the absence of light and therefore he travels...
This episode follows Babak Tafreshi to dizzying altitudes, to explore the fascinating sky of the planet's southern hemisphere. On his search for an absolutely unpolluted night sky, he travels to the world famous ALMA observatory and hikes the valleys of Chile - tracing back an ancient connection to the stars.
This episode follows Gernot Meiser - known as the shadow hunter - to Indonesia. Gernot and his partner Pascale Demy are on the prowl for breathtaking pictures of celestial phenomena. Their particular interest: the total solar eclipse. To find the perfect spot, the two travel to the most remote places and hop from island to island, always engaging locals, eager to learn and teach.
In this episode, photographer Yuichi Takasaka is trying to fulfill his childhood's dream and witness the aurora borealis over the Arctic Ocean. We follow him from the city of Vancouver through the wintry landscape of the Yukon to coastal town of Tuktuyaktuk, where the Northern lights dance over the ocean.
