Venus and Jupiter in Conjunction morning of August 6, 2001 28mm lens, f/2.8 Fuji 100F slide film about 40s exposure in late twilight, camera on tripod (no tracking) -- some trailing shot from home in early twilight. some noctilucent clouds visible in dawn glow at lower left. Saturn, Aldebaran and Hyades at upper right. Capella at top of frame
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.
