Sundogs and a small light pillar around the setting Sun, Feb 21, 2015, from the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, Churchill, Manitoba. I shot this through the window of the upstairs classroom! It was -32° C with a brisk wind outside - witness the flags at right. At left is an old launch tower from the Rocket Range.
An ice crystal halo around the first quarter Moon high in the northern winter sky, on January 27, 2015, taken from near Pinos Altos, New Mexico. The Pleiades is above and left of the Moo, the Hyades and Aldebaran at left. The green Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) is on the lunar halo at top. This is a stack of two exposures, a 13 second exposure for the sky and halo and and 0.8 second exposure for the Moon itself, though it remains overexposed. However, its intensity is reduced by blending in the area of the Moon taken with a short exposure, with masking done via a luminosity mask. Both image with a 24mm lens at f/2.5 and Canon 6D at ISO 800 to minimize trailing on this tripod shot.
A 22° around the Full Moon in a sky of high cirrus clouds and contrails. Shot with the 14mm lens and Canon 6D for 20 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 400. The Moon sits above Orion in the winter sky. Orion is at bottom in the halo.
