The thin 41-hour-old crescent Moon in colourful twilight and sunset clouds, setting in the southwest on December 30, 2016. Earthshine is plainly visible illuminating the dark side of the Moon, despite the low atltitude and thin cloud. This is a single 0.8-second exposure at f/2.8 with the 135mm telephoto and Canon 6D at ISO 400. Shot from home in southern Alberta on the eve of New Year’s Eve!
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.
