A pre-dawn display of noctilucent clouds on the morning of June 23, 2014, two days after solstice. The NLC clouds are low in the northeast, in the twilight, but the entire sky is blue with perpetual twilight. The Big Dipper is at upper left, the Little Dipper and Polaris at top centre. This is a single 10 second exposure at f/2.8 with the 16-35mm lens at 16mm and Canon 6D at ISO 1600.
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 6-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.
Noctilucent Clouds from Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, Alberta, July 15, 2013, visible at the start of the night but fading as the Sun set lower below the horizon. This is a single frame, the first, in a 123-frame time-lapse, taken with the 50mm lens at f/2 and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 800 for 15 seconds. Light from the setting waxing Moon illuminates the ground and sky.
