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.
The summer and autumn Milky Way over Chief Mountain at Police Outpost Provincial Park, in southern Alberta, on September 26, 2016. Mars is just below M8 the Lagoon Nebula here. This is a stack of frames from the start of a time-lapse sequence with the western sky still blue with evening twilight. The ground is a stack of 8 exposures, mean combined to smooth noise, while the sky is from one exposure, the first in 400 in the time-lapse. Each exposure is 20 seconds at f/2.5 with the 20mm Sigma lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 6400.
