Sunset colours over the sea cliffs of Finnkirka in northern Norway, shot October 17, 2019 from the ms Trollfjord after the stop that afternoon at North Cape. The dark arc of the Earth’s shadow is just visible along the horizon. This is a handheld panorama and stitched with Adobe Camera Raw. It has soft focus with the 50mm Nikkor lens and Sony a7III but I improved, indeed salvaged, it with the use of Topaz Sharpen AI.
A composite image depicting the path and position of the low waxing crescent Moon of autumn across the southwest evening sky over five nights, Sept 30 to Oct 4, 2019. The ecliptic — the blue line — is always low in the sky at this time of year, placing the Moon and planets low as well in the evening twilight. This was shot from my home in southern Alberta at latitude 50° N. Earthshine is just visible on the dark side of the Moon in the later images. The base panorama image of the sky and landscape is from Oct 1, which also provides the Moon image second from the right. The Sept 30 (farthest to the right), plus Oct 2, Oct 3 and Oct 4 moons (to the left, from R to L) are added in with separate exposures taken from exactly the same spot and with the same camera and lens on the other nights, with those images layered and masked into the Oct 1 sky. The Moon positions are close to the actual positions relative to the horizon and to Jupiter, bright at left. The ecliptic line looks straight but is actually a shallow curving arc. The ecliptic line is correctly placed below the Moon, as the Moon’s path does not coincide with the ecliptic but is tilted 5° to the ecliptic and it was above the ecliptic on most of these nights, but approached and crossed the ecliptic on Oct. 4. Jupiter, however, is on the ecliptic. Antares and the stars of Scorpius are also visible in the deep twilight. The base image is cropped from a panorama of 5 images stitched with Adobe Camera Raw. All with the Canon EOS R and 35mm Canon L lens. While this was taken in early October the field has snow from an unseasonably early snowfall and winter storm which didn’t clear until Sept 30, preventing me from getting the Sept 29 Moon very close to the Sun.
The low waxing crescent Moon in the evening sky, Sept 30, 2019, taken to demonstrate the low angle of the ecliptic in autumn. This was taken the evening after a weekend early season snowstorm. A single exposure taken with the 24-105mm lens at 105mm and Canon EOS R camera. Dynamic Contrast filter applied to the ground with ON1 Effects.
