Create a 60-second VERTICAL (9:16) animated explainer video for YouTube Shorts / Instagram Reels.
TITLE: Tonight, Halley's Comet Dust Lights Up Your Sky
STYLE: Clean modern motion graphics. Deep navy-to-black night-sky palette, soft starfields, glowing cyan and warm-gold accents. Flat/2.5D illustration, smooth camera pushes and zooms, no photoreal humans. Bold sans-serif captions centred in the safe zone (avoid top 10% and bottom 20% of frame). Calm, wonder-filled tone. Fast cuts every 4–6 seconds.
VOICE: Warm, curious, energetic English narrator (neutral Indian-English accent if available). Moderate pace, ~150 words total.
MUSIC/SFX: Soft ambient space pad; subtle "whoosh" on each meteor streak; light chime on key numbers.
SCENES (use this exact narration):
Scene 1 (0–4s) — Night sky, a bright meteor streaks diagonally across the frame.
Narration: "See a shooting star tonight? It's a crumb from Halley's Comet."
On-screen text: "A piece of Halley's Comet 🌠"
Scene 2 (4–14s) — Animated solar system: Halley's Comet on its long oval orbit, shedding a glowing dust trail behind it.
Narration: "Every time Halley's Comet swings past the Sun, it leaves behind a trail of tiny dust and rock grains spread along its orbit."
On-screen text: "Comet = cosmic dust trail"
Scene 3 (14–24s) — Earth moving along its orbit, crossing through the dust trail; zoom in as grains hit the atmosphere and burn into bright streaks.
Narration: "Every October, Earth ploughs through that trail. The grains hit our atmosphere and burn up — that's the Orionid meteor shower."
On-screen text: "Earth crosses the trail every October"
Scene 4 (24–32s) — Calendar graphic flipping to "21–22 OCT", glowing.
Narration: "This year it peaks on the night of October 21 into 22."
On-screen text: "PEAK: Night of 21–22 Oct"
Scene 5 (32–42s) — Sky map: the constellation Orion outlined, meteors radiating outward from near it; a wide sweep of open sky.
Narration: "The meteors seem to come from Orion — but don't stare at one spot. Look at a wide patch of dark sky."
On-screen text: "Look wide, not just at Orion"
Scene 6 (42–50s) — Timeline bar: "Moonset → Dawn", a waxing gibbous Moon sinking below a horizon, sky darkening, meteors appearing.
Narration: "The bright Moon washes out faint meteors, so watch after it sets in your city, in the dark hours before dawn. Under dark skies, expect around 10 to 20 an hour."
On-screen text: "Best: after moonset, before dawn • ~10–20/hr"
Scene 7 (50–56s) — Silhouette of a person lying on a mat on a rooftop away from city lights; eyes-adjusting icon with "30 min" timer.
Narration: "Get away from city lights, give your eyes thirty minutes, and no telescope needed."
On-screen text: "No telescope • 30 min to adjust"
Scene 8 (56–60s) — Halley's Comet glowing far out in space with "2061" text.
Narration: "And Halley itself? It's coming back in 2061."
On-screen text: "Halley returns: 2061 • Follow for more sky events"
CONSTRAINTS: Keep total length 60 seconds. Do not show real people or logos. All space visuals are illustrative animation, not real footage. Add burned-in captions for all narration.
