A fairly mild dispay of aurora in the darkening deep blue twilight over the lake at Police Outpost Provincial Park, in southern Alberta, on September 26, 2016, with the stars of Perseus rising, and with Capella low in the northeast at centre. This is a stack of 4 x 20 second exposures for the dark ground and water to smooth noise and one 20-second exposure for the sky, all with the 25mm Canon lens at f/2.8 and Canon 6D at ISO 2000. Taken with dark frame LENR on.
The Milky Way over the distant Prince of Wales Hotel from Driftwood Beach, in Waterton Lakes National Park, September 24, 2016. Being at the end of the season, the hotel is closed and dark. The bright star at centre is Altair in Aquila. This is a stack of 4 x 30 second exposures, mean combined, to smooth noise, and one 30 second exposure for the sky, all with the Sigma 20mm lens at f/2.5 and Nikon D750 at ISO 6400.
The Harvest Moon of September 16, 2016, rising over the badlands of the Red Deer River valley from Orkney Viewpoint, north of Drumheller, Alberta. The blue arc of the rising shadow of the Earth projected onto the upper atmosphere curves across the sky, mirroring the curving arc of the river below. A photographer at far right captures the scene of the moonrise over the Badlands. This is a 7-section single-tier panorama with the 20mm Sigma lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 100. Stitched with Adobe Camera Raw.
