Avatar - Pandora Nights (HD)

The beauty of Pandora at night. Music: Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. This is night-time footage from James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game (XBOX 360 version). In the game, one level in the Na’vi campaign (Swotulu) has a section of the map in perpetual night, but all levels will turn into night if you wait long enough. After about two hours it will transition into night and remain that way for about 20 minutes. ------------------------------------ Excerpt from Pandora receives significant light from Alpha Centauri B (ACB). Because of this, for half the Polyphemian year its nights are never dark, but instead are more like Earthly dusk. At the closest point in its orbit, ACB is about 2,300 times as bright as Earth’s full moon; at its farthest, it is still one hundred and seventy times as bright. During the other half of the year, when ACB is in the daytime sky, many Pandoran nights are illuminated both by Polyphemus’s