Venus, as an evening star in the western twilight of a December night, over the old Pioneer grain elevators at Mossleigh, Alberta. Lighting is fro the sky and partly from nearby streetlights. This is an HDR stack of 5 exposures, at 2/3rd stop increments from 1 second to 6 seconds, to preserve the dark foreground detail and bright sky. Merged with Adobe Camera Raw. A “Misty Landscape” filter from Luminar plug-in blended in to add the soft focus effect. Diffraction spikes on Venus added with Astronomy Tools action. With 24mm lens at f/5 and Nikon D750 at ISO 100.
The 8-day-old Moon in twilight during a particularly colourful sunset, November 8, 2016 from home. A single exposure through the Explore Scientific FCD100 4-inch apo refractor at f/7 and with the Nikon D750 at ISO 100.
