I want to shoot night sky clouds and i tried a friend's SR36E with no luck (it has a nighshot and super nightshot functions), everything was black although there were visible clouds and stars.
I am very new to video cameras in general. Is it possible to shoot night skies???? Do I need to do some tweaking? Is the SR36E not the right one? Which camera does stuff like that?

Thanks in advance

Not a chance.

I suppose if you had a good low light SD DV camera ( more sensative typically than HDV ) and used a tonne of gain you might see a few stars but the image will be very poor - all grainy.

If you want clouds at night just shoot them in the day and make it look like night in post.

Was watching some extraordinary time lapse videos at YouTube - mockmoon2000's Channel (they use digital photo cameras i guess and they let them take photos every 30 secs, then edit them, and then combine all pictures to a movie) and wondered why a video camera wont shoot the damn stars ! lol

Anyway, thanks a lot for the info

Yea - I am sure they use stills cameras like you say.