Venus in a close conjunction with dimmer Saturn in the evening twilight on January 22, 2023. They were 22 arc minutes apart this evening. The 1-day-old waxing crescent Moon is below the planet pair deep in the twilight. The magnitude 2.8 star Deneb Algiedi, aka Delta Capricorni, is faintly visible below Venus. Venus was magnitude -3.9 while Saturn was magnitude 0.8. This is a single 1-second exposure with the Canon RF70-200mm lens at 124mm and at f/5.6, on the Canon R5 at ISO 100. Taken from home in southern Alberta. Most processing done in Adobe Camera Raw with the aid of AI Sky and Inverted Sky masks. A mild Orton glow added with Luminar Neo. Noise reduction with ON1 NoNoise AI 2023. There is a portrait orientation version of this as well.
Venus in a close conjunction with dimmer Saturn in the evening twilight on January 22, 2023. They were 22 arc minutes apart this evening. The 1-day-old waxing crescent Moon is below the planet pair deep in the twilight. The magnitude 2.8 star Deneb Algiedi, aka Delta Capricorni, is faintly visible below Venus. Venus was magnitude -3.9 while Saturn was magnitude 0.8. This is a single 0.8-second exposure with the Canon RF70-200mm lens at 171mm and at f/5.6, on the Canon R5 at ISO 100. Taken from home in southern Alberta. Most processing done in Adobe Camera Raw with the aid of AI Sky and Inverted Sky masks. A mild Orton glow added with Luminar Neo. Noise reduction with ON1 NoNoise AI 2023. There is a landscape orientation version of this as well.
This is a 270° panorama of the auroral arc seen across the northern sky on January 14, 2023. It is framed between the setting summer Milky Way (at left in the northwest) and the rising winter Milky Way (at right in the southeast). To the west (right) of the winter Milky Way is Orion, with Sirius below, while above is Aldebaran, the Hyades, reddish Mars, and the blue Pleiades at upper right. The Big Dipper and Ursa Major are above the main arc of aurora to the north at centre. Polaris is at top, left of centre. Cygnus (with the star Deneb) and Lyra (with the star Vega) are setting at left above my house. The auroral arc shows the characteristic yellow-green colour but also upper altitude reds, both from oxygen atoms. The Kp index was about 4 this night, though peaking to Kp5 at times. Clouds rolling in later prevented me from catching more of the show later when it apparently got more active. Taken from home in southern Alberta (latitude 51° N) on January 14, 2023, in a 7-section panorama, each section with the Venus Optics 15mm lens at f/2 on the AstroGear filter-modified Canon R at ISO 800, for 20 seconds each. Stitched with Adobe Camera Raw. I was testing the Canon R camera this night.
