Did it in manual yes, but a little overexposed at the beginning and a little underexposed at the end (settings were the same through the whole half hour). That way I could adjust the full series without introducing significant noise in post. Technically, in a day to night transition, it’s useful to follow the holy grail methodology, but I’ll give that a shot next time.

Also, when working with a ton of images, it’s useful to use software like LRTimelapse because it allows you to edit a few key images and smoothes in the transitions across the rest of the hyperlapse. In this instance, I just edited 6 frames manually!