The Milky Way over the old corral at the site of the 76 Ranch in the Frenchman Valley in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan. I shot this Aug 26 on a perfect night, with aurora beginning to kick up but still low in brightness when I shot this so the sky was dark. The foreground is lit by starlight, by the aurora brightening in the north, and by the occasional flashes of spotlights from naturalists down the valley spotting for nocturnal ferrets. The green bands in the sky are from natural airglow. This is a composite stack of 5 images: 4 tracking the sky on the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer for the sky and 1 untracked shot with the motor off, which supplied the sharp ground. The blurred ground in the tracked shots was masked out in Photoshop. All images were 3 minutes at f/2.5 with the 24mm lens and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600.
Mars (bottom) and Saturn in conjunction at right, and the Milky Way at left, in deep blue twilight before the sky got filly dark, over the old corral of the 76 Ranch, in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, August 27/28, 2014. Antares and Scorpius are just behind the corral gate at right, Sagittarius is at left in the Milky Way. M6 and M7 open cluster are visible at left. This is a composite of two images: one tracked (for the sky) and one untracked (for the ground) images, both 60 second expsosures at f/2.8 with the 24mm lens and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 2000. The tracker was the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer.
Two Perseid meteors on August 11, 2014, the night before the peak of the meteor shower, caught in two separate exposures and composited into one frame. The ground is mostly from one frame with some lighting on the mountains contributed from the second frame. Illumination is from the nearly Full Moon (one day past a “supermoon”) off frame to the left. It is casting cloud shadows across the sky. The lake was calm for some shots and added the reflection. This image is from two frames taken as part of a 555-frame time-lapse, with the Canon 5D Mark II and Rokinon 14mm lens, taken in hopes of catching some meteors. Each frame was 15 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 3200.
