You can tell that this was also an emotional experience for Pete. The whole video is beautiful and conveys the emotional impact nicely! Thank you for sharing this.

Brady, you make three kinds of videos. The "that was interesting" type, the "I remember that, I think I'll watch it again" type and the ones you never forget and watch again and again. This is one of many. Marvelous.

The thing to remember about the Green Flash is that pictures do not do it justice. I am told by people who have actually seen it that to the naked eye, the green color is the most vivid, purest imaginable green... nothing like what the camera captures. And the Belt of Venus is just as impressive (The Shadow of the Earth, gently covering you with Night!) and much, much easier to see.

Pete's enthusiasm is really quite infectious! Great video, thanks Brady

So beautiful, I cried.

That was beautiful!

Sunsets and sunrises are among my favorite natural phenomenon. I love the moment where the sky turns that beautiful pinkish/light purplish color. My parents live in Naples, FL where the sun sets directly over the Gulf of Mexico. One time while we were visiting and eating at restaurant right on the beach, my mom mentioned the time that they saw the "green flash". I never heard about this before and assumed it was something unique to that area. This was filmed over the Pacific Ocean during an absolutely gorgeous sunset. I live in So Calif, where we enjoy gorgeous sunsets that don't quite appear squarely over the ocean like this. The west coast curves making the ocean to the South instead of directly west. Is the green flash only visible to the naked eye when the horizon is directly over water? Now I want to see this for myself if I know where and when to look for it. I also love rainbows. I have a crummy cell phone video on my channel of beautiful full double rainbow I shot from my front yard. Anyway, I really enjoyed and learned a lot from this video. Thanks for posting it!

Very nice movie. I am so happy that I am so lucky to see this (at least on my screen). But I enkoy the most the true happines of that scientist taking the photos. How he admires the beauty of the nature.

To see people getting so excited about stuff like this is immensely heartening and cheery. Human beings like these people are the reason I have hope for our species. Keep up the fantastic work, guys.

The way you did this video, the double shots of the sun with the tips of how to view over the top and just everything in general about this video is bloody awesome !! More like this please!

Amazing video. The music is perfectly synchronised with the video.

3:29 'the universe does not wait for photographers' that's an amazingly beautiful quote right there :D

People often ask me if science doesn't take all the wonder out of the natural world. I can't imagine a more elegant reply than this video. Thank you

Nicely done, Brady. Good background music selection, too.

Brady, Alan and Pete have collaborated to produce something indescribably spectacular. Nothing could be as perfect as Pete's discussion of astronomical objects and atmospheric effects by the light of a fading sun, with only the rocks of a distant mountaintop, the sky and the telescopes, and this most amazing of musical selections for company. Well done Brady and everyone who had a hand in this. I feel like you need a campfire now. Time to gather some firewood!

I really liked this video. Pete's excitement and enthusiasm really came across and it was obviously a very special time for him. Great video Brady!

One of the most interesting things about the green flash is that we used to think it was just a trick of the eye, from red of the sunset bleaching the retina. It took a while before we were able to film it and prove it really existed.

amazing work brady, love you.

Photographs are as beautiful as music, I don't know what I would do if I didn't see these kind of beautiful things. I must thank photographers all around the world for the talent and amazing photographing skills. Thank you.

Very well done video, Brady. I felt the anticipation and then the joy he felt when he got it.

I think you caught a real human moment, Brady. This was beyond science. One of your best videos.

This is one of the things I hope to see in my lifetime. I watched the other Green Flash video before coming to this one and the best bit apart from seeing the green flash captured on the camera is the reaction Pete gave. Absolutely beautiful

Once again Alan makes the most beautiful music that goes PERFECTLY with the video. The beauty in this video accompanied by Alan's beautiful music almost makes me tear up. This is just a blast of beauty Brady it IS AMAZING

this is sooo amazing..the smile in this man' face when he photographed the green flash....this is my goal for next year when covid is gone

Was getting goosebumps towards the end of the video. Watching sunsets in the skies of South Pole sounds fascinating.

This style of reportage is basically art my friend. This video was so inspiring.

That X lens flare shot was amazing!

I am so glad I decided to watch the 9 minute video. This was fantastic.

You just beyond justified my purchase of a Chromecast, Brady.

Something has to be pretty special for me to share it to facebook - but I shared both versions of this video. Thank you so much.

I really love this! I also enjoyed the fact he kept closing the shutter even after he got the green flash! Haha

Those distortions of the sun look like a superior mirage even a fata morgana. I don't even know whether I just said something really dumb. Nice video either way.

Huh, I never knew that pointing your camera at the sun could damage the sensor. I have to say, watching this, and especially seeing how Pete was reacting to it, makes me feel incredibly serene. Really great stuff.

ive seen this before but i had to come back and see it again. ill be more sincere this time. that truely was a beautiful sight you guys had. a very memorable one. the piano really added to the sweet mood as well. Brady, you are a lucky son of a gun. the things you do the places you see the people you meet.

I'm color blind, and I was only able to see a few of the green images in this video, but they were much better than the other green flash pictures I've seen before. Thanks!

I am as speechless as I have ever been after watching a KZfaq video... I have just come from watching the 60 Symbols Green Flash vid and was blown away; this exceeds that... I do not know what to say... but thank you Brady... thank you. Such a touching thing you have given us!

I'm amazed by how passionate Mr. Lawrence is about what he does. I hope I'll have the same enthusiasm about my job.

Impressive. Nature really is beautiful.

The music is gorgeous!

Beautiful video Brady. I think you really managed to capture a part of the majesty of astronomy. I particularly like how, surrounded by some of the largest telescopes on the planet, you showed that anyone can experience it using some fairly basic equipment or even the naked eye.

As always Brady, you continue to impress me with the range of your work and the beauty you capture.

4:29 Is an insane shot of the sun like that with the shape and the colour of of it.

Breathtaking! I watch all your channels and this video with Pete's enthusiasm and the soothing music is my all time favorite.I would never knew about the green flash if it wasn't for you :) Thank you!

I've been waiting for VLT and ALMA videos for so long, I'm Chilean and a follower since the very beginning of Brady's science videos, I'm also a chemist, now working on Hungary, and I need to thank Brady so now I'm able to see this astonishing footage from the installations of this amazing telescopes on my country, and to appreciate the beauty of simple things like a sunset on the eyes of a curious person, as every scientist is.

Alan wrote this piece specially, based on how I described what would happen!

This is so wonderful. *tear*

Also, the Green Flash has been chased for 100s of years. I heard from someone that as legend has it, if you witness the green flash, you'll live forever. For a lot of people, it has a special place in their heart among the phenomena you can see in the sky. :)

Brady you are one of my favourite Aussie story tellers. That was wonderful.

I've heard of the green flash before, but I've never been able to see it until now -- great work! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Brady, that was pretty awesome.

Thankyou so very much for sharing this with us.It,s something I would never have seen in my life ,without you posting this video.Its awesome thanks again.

The score. Blissful.

damn brady, what a great video, i even got a little teary at the end haha. i'm chilean and was lucky enough to go to paranal last year and watch a sunset in that exact same spot, it was truly amazing

When I was still a Rio Officer in the merchant marine I watched the sunset every clear day hunting for the green flash. Over the years I was only to able to see it a handful of times.

Astonishingly beautiful video Brady, you couldn't have picked a better song either.

I love astronomy!

I love this! Great feeling when I realized he was talking about chromatic aberration from atmospheric refraction. Also known as dispersion, but an ADC can't compensate here because the rest of the sun is occluded by the horizon. Would be neat to put it through a spectroscope to see the colours getting masked off.

This was so beautiful. I couldn't stop smiling!

Well. That was completely lovely.

Even better in this longer version. Thanks ;-)

Omg, am a HUGE fan of all your channels Brady but in this vid. you mange to capture something that is bigger than mankind itself, and how lucky we are for living on this planet. Stars are so amazing and that we have one at our backyard is not to take for granted. Keep up the good work and continue to educate people about our precise universe we are part of!

The ultimate lens envy (at the beginning)! I lolled.

how does this not have more views?

This is Art

Sanibel Island in Florida the green flash happens right as the sun disappears at the horizon. It's just the light refraction at the horizon.

Who could ever dislike this? It was so beautiful! I love deep sky videos :)

This video is just lovely. Thank you. Looking forward to more videos from Chile!

So lucky! Thanks for posting this.

there is an annotation at the start of the short version and it is written at the top of the video description!

Excellent video Brady!

Superb Brady - I've just watched this twice , its a very very special video, as someone else said, the human moment captured : underpinned by Alan's music perfectly. This captures and shows an example of Feynman's statement that scientific knowledge only adds to your ability to perceive beauty... perfectly.

I'm so glad that you are back with more DSV content. :) I'm hoping for a DSV and SS content boom. :D NP, CP, PV, etc is interesting, but I prefer these. :)

simply stunning. nature is truly beautiful.

Awesome video Brady!

Wow, I loved every moment of this. I rarely (very rarely) comment on youtube videos. For this I had to make an exception. Thank you for sharing this amazing moment.

Brady, you see some of the coolest things in the universe! Thanks for sharing them!

I am offended. Why have you not gone to my flat in Sweden, pounding on my door, shouting through the mail-slot "THIS CHANNEL EXIST, HANSEN! COME QUICK!" ?? :-)

1:52 What a fantastic shot!

What a great video, very majestic. Now i'd like a time lapse video of the "belt of venus".

Simply beautiful.

pure beauty

thanks bradey you are great

What a great video, watching a sunset never gets old :-)

I'm glad I'm not the only one - I haven't seen a green flash for 22 years.

Brilliant. Music is awesome. Regards to Alankey86.

Sick scope, Sir!

Brilliant! Absolutely beautiful!

The light shines through layers of air of varying temperatures, so the disc gets 'sliced', a bit like taking a photograph of a ball, cutting it into slices, and loosely assembling the pieces. The spiky appearance is caused by some of the layers distorting or magnifying to slightly different degrees. Happy birthday.

What a wonderful video.

stunningly beautiful! also nice music

I’ve seen the green flash. It is an incredibly vivid green.

*Goosebumps*

Thats the first time a science video teared me up.

For shooting the sun with a super telephoto lens you should put an ND filter which reduces the amount of light that reach the sensitive digital image sensor. An ND 100000 filter reduces the amount of light around 16 times. Also a small aperture reduces further the amount of light. Most super telephoto lenses have an f/22 aperture or the smaller f/32. However ND 100000 filters are very expensive and f/22 or the smaller f/32 aperture creates serious diffraction which lowers the quality of photos. An affordable and practical solution is to put two ND 1000 filters one upon each other on the lens and select f/16. ND 1000 filters with excellent quality are much more affordable than the very special ND 100000 filters. Both ND 1000 filters reduce 20 times the amount of light but the use of two instead of one may create vignetting which is the darkening of the corners of photos. The f/16 creates less diffraction and delivers better quality. The f/11 allows double the amount of light than f/22, it doesn't create diffraction and offer excellent quality of photos but it can be dangerous to the sensor. An ideal solution is the use of special filters for solar observation. They are not cheap and don't have the same optical quality like the common ND filter which can be used for many kinds of photography. Also they can be used only for shooting the sun.

amazing editing of this! very beautiful

Thanks for this video. I won't ever see this directly, it's beautiful.

Indeed it can be done and was done in this video, but there are a few hazards pointing cameras and telescopes at the sun which need to be VERY carefully considered.

"The universe doesn't wait for photographers" but it sure still is a show off :P Beaitiful.

Love the way people become enthusiastic by natural phenomena and science! :)

this was awesome! thanks for sharing it Brady =)