Stunning Western U.S. timelapse shows storms, Milky Way, auroras

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Randy Halverson uses the American West as a window into worlds out yonder in this vibrant timelapse video, which includes six days' worth of footage from Utah's Zion Canyon. Halverson also shot in South Dakota and Wyoming from April to November of last year. Read more about the project here.

(Apologies to Jim Dalrymple II, The Tribune's resident timelapse aficionado, who is in a Phoenix courtroom covering this.)

— Matthew Piper

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