Summer solstice twilight at Crawling Lake in southern Alberta, with a pair of contrails across the evening sky and reflected in the calm waters. The stars of Cassiopea are at upper right. This is an HDR stack of 7 exposures, tone mapped in Adobe Camera Raw. With the 14mm Rokinon SP lens.
Summer solstice twilight at Crawling Lake in southern Alberta, with a pair of contrails across the evening sky and reflected in the calm waters. The stars of the Big Dipper are at upper left. This is an HDR stack of 7 exposures, tone mapped in Adobe Camera Raw. With the 14mm Rokinon SP lens.
A display of noctilucent clouds, the first seen from home in Alberta during the 2017 season, on June 23/24, 2017. This was a 12:43 am and the white NLCs mix with the colours of the perpetual twilight. Capella is the bright star at right of centre, circumpolar from this latitude of 51° North. This is with the 135mm telephoto and is the first frame from a 370-frame time-lapse. It is 5 seconds at f/2 and ISO 800.