The waxing crescent Moon over the skyline of Calgary on January 18, 2018. I shot this from Tom Campbell Park area looking southwest to the sunset twilight. This is a 2-segment panorama, each segment being a 7-image HDR stack, all blended with Adobe Camera Raw. Shot with the 50mm lens and Canon 6D MkII.
Jupiter (brightest) and Mars (dimmer, just to the right of Jupiter) in a very close conjunction (about 16 arc minutes or 1/4 degree apart) on the morning of January 6, 2018. The double star Alpha Librae, or Zubenelgenubi, is to the right of the planet pair and resolved here. Two of the moons of Jupiter are also resolved. I shot this from home on a mild winter morning but with cloud moving in from the west, so the timing was perfect. This is a stack of 4 exposures mean combined for the ground to smooth noise and one exposure for the sky, all 2.5-seconds at f/4 with the Sigmas 50mm lens and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 800. Twilight and moonlight illuminate the sky and ground. Framed with a Rule of Thirds composition.
Venus and Jupiter in a very close conjunction (20 arc minutes apart) at dawn on November 13, 2017, from home in Alberta. This is a single 1/5-second exposure at f/2.8 with the 200mm lens and Canon 60Da at ISO 400.
