Frozen South: Antarctica 24 hour Sun 4K

In the summer time at Scott Base Antarctica the sun is above the horizon for 4 months. This shows the movement of the sun over a full 24 hour period near the peak of summer in December. Read full description below for details on how the video was made. Camera was set to take a photo once every one minute and one second (so that the second hand would be moving on the watch) should have made it 1min and 2 secs so the send hand would move faster than the minute hand in retrospect. ISO 100, 100th sec exposure. Lens was set on f22 to get enough depth of field to have the watch and horizon both in focus, hence the lens flare effect that look like sun rays, number of flares is equal to the number of aperture blades in the lens used, hence the final GoPro shot only having one big diagonal flare. The sun looks much bigger in the final shot simply because of blown out highlights from the relatively low dynamic range of the GoPro compared to the DSLR. In reality within the picture it is a wider angle so the sun is actually smaller. A modified Orion equatorial telescope mount was used to track the sun. Camera and tracking powered by solar panel and batteries. To see what the sun does at the actual South Pole, check out this video by Robert Schwarz: P.S. Flat Earth people, you are very entertaining with your comments. My challenge to you: put your money where your mouth is and book a cruise ship holiday to Antarctica below the Antarctic circle to prove the video wrong. I’ll even reimburse the cost of your trip if you can prove the sun does not do this as shown in this video... Edit: Years later, cue sound of crickets, despite 40,000 tourists and thousands of researchers and workers going to Antarctica every year, no one has taken me up on this offer. Also, check this interview out for details about the video...