A wide-angle view of the display of noctilucent clouds across the northern horizon on June 4/5, 2019 from home in southern Alberta. This was at about local midnight MDT with twilight still brightening the sky, as it does all night at this time of year from my latitude of 51° N. Cassiopeia is at upper right, Capella is above the trees, and Perseus is skimming the northern horizon at centre. This image shows the NLCs in context to show their angular extent. This is a single image with the 24mm lens and Sony a7III camera. Exposure was 5 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 800.
The constellation of Ursa Major, with the Big Dipper or Plough, photographed in deep twilight on May 27, 2019 from home. I shot this before the sky gat completely dark but before this area of sky got too low in the northwest. At bottom are the line of paired stars called The Three Leaps of the Gazelle. This is a stack of 3 x 1-minute tracked exposures with the 35mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 800, plus a similar exposure blended in but taken through the Kenko Softon diffusion filter to add the star glows. GradientXterminator filter applied to even out twilight gradients.
The 3-day-old Moon high in the west on a spring evening, May 7, 2019, in a panorama taken from home. This is for an eventual illustration and composite image comparing the high Moon and steep ecliptic of spring to the low Moon and shallow ecliptic of autumn, shot from the same location. This is with the 35mm lens and Canon 6D MkII and stitched with ACR.
