On a perfectly clear night in the world-renowned Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada the Milky way is seen shining bright like a million jewels.

Captured on March 21 in the Icefields Parkway, the timelapse footage shows the formation of the stars across the sky as the earth rotates with the stunning scenery in the foreground.

The filmer said: "[This is] the first successful Milky Way chase of the year.

"Friday night and Saturday morning provided an absolutely perfectly clear sky for some Milky Way shooting!

"I wanted to do something a little different this year and after a winter of looking at other videos online and some trial and error, I am pretty happy with how this looks!"

Ah the first successful milkyway chase of the year. Friday night / Saturday morning provided an absolutely perfectly clear sky for some milkyway shooting! I wanted to do something a little different this year and after a winter of looking at other videos online and some trial and error, I am pretty happy with how this looks! So after approximately 7 hours driving, 5 hours shooting and 5 hours editing here we are.
This video consists of 1420 frames and two separate videos. I shot 710 frames of the milkyway and then 710 frames of me driving the car down the road to give me the light trail driving away and then back into the frame. Then I put these layers on top of each other in Photoshop and brushed out the sections in each that I didn't want.