The blue glow of summer solstice twilight in the north (at left below the Big Dipper) and the Milky Way arching over Castle Mountain at right, on the Bow Valley Parkway, in Banff National Park, on a very clear moonless night June 4, 2016. The road seems to lead from the Big Dipper to the Milky Way. Despite this being shot after midnight, the sky to the north is still bright with twilight which lasts all night at this latitude near solstice. However, the Milky Way still stands out. In early June the Milky Way arches across the eastern sky and is not yet overhead as it is later in northern summer, making it easier to frame in a pan like this. The Big Dipper at upper left is distorted by the map projection used to create the pan, which stretches the sky across the top near the zenith to fill the rectangular frame, like Greenland being distorted in Mercator maps. Polaris is left of top centre - the Dipper bowl still points to it. This is a panorama stitched and cropped from 28 panels in 4 tiers of 7 panels each, shot with the iPano motorized panning unit. Each exposure was 20 seconds at f/2.5 with the Sigma 24mm Art lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 5000. Stitched with PTGui.
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.
The waxing quarter Moon in the evening sky at sunset, at the historic Swing Bridge near Sale, Victoria, Australia, on the Latrobe River. The Bridge was completed in 1883 and turns on a central pivot to let boats through up river to the Sale Harbour. The Bridge last opened in 1972 as it aged and became unsafe. The Bridge was refurbished in 2006 but remains closed and not open to traffic but is now at least safe for visitors as an hsitoric site. The Sun has set at left in the west, and the Moon is 90° away to the right, in the north. This is a 9-section panorama with the 35mm lens inn portrait mode. The original is 25,000 x 5700 pixels.
