Stars wheeling about the North Celestial Pole, and Polaris, in a composite stack of 150 frames shot at pre-dawn July 9, 2014 as part of a time-lapse sequence but here stacked with StarStax with the Comet effect mode. The landscape is from one frame to capture the lighting from the Moon at one instant rather than blurring the lighting over an hour or so of motion. Some low noctilucent clouds are on the northern horizon. Each frame taken with the Canon 5D MkII and 14mm Rokinon lens at f/2.8 for 20 seconds at ISO 2000.
A display of noctilucent clouds, or polar mesospheric clouds, on summer solstice night, June 21-22, 2014 from home in southern Alberta. The is a 5-section panorama with each segment a 13-second exposure at f/5/6 with the 28-105mm lens at 65mm and Canon 60Da at ISO 800. Stitched in PTGui.
Grand display of Noctilucent Clouds with lots of ripples and climbing to high angle above the horizon Taken early at 4 am on morning of July 9, 1988, from Edmonton (5908 - 188 Street) at latitude of 54° N. Moon and Jupiter are to the right. 28mm lens, ISO 100 Slide film.