A display of noctilucent clouds, the first good display of the season from my area of southern Alberta, on June 17/18. 2016. This is with a 105mm telephoto and the Nikon D750, and is the first frame of a 1000-frame time-lapse sequence. However, as the Sun dropped farther below the horizon the clouds did lose illumination and faded, from the top down.
A panorama of a display of noctilucent clouds (NLCs) on the night of June 17-18, 2015, shot from home in Alberta looking north. I used a 135mm telephoto to zoom in on the display along the horizon. This is a stitch of 6 segments, each a 6-second exposure at f/2 and at ISO 800 with the Canon 6D. A very faint aurora is at right. Capella is right of top centre. Fog lies in the valley below, from a cool damp night after a day of rain.
Noctilucent clouds (NLCs) over the silhouette of the badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park in southern Alberta, on the night of June 15/16, 2015. The clouds remained low on the northern horizon and faded as the Sun angle dropped through the night but then reappeared in the northwest prior to dawn. The bright star at left is Capella, circumpolar at this latitude of 50° N. This is a single exposure for 10 seconds at f/3.2 with the 16-35mm lens and at ISO 800 with the Canon 60Da.
