The winter stars and constellations in dawn in early September (Sept 5, 2017) from home in Alberta. Venus is the bright object at left in the morning twilght. Orion is at right, with Sirius just rising above the trees. The rest of the winter panorama of constellations are all there: Auriga at top, Taurus and the Pleiades at top right, and Gemini left of centre The Beehive star cluster in Cancer is above and right of Venus. Procyon is right of Venus. This illustrates how the winter stars can be seen even here even in what is officially still summer, before the autumn equinox, provide you get up very early! The nearly Full Moon is setting opposite this scene, providing some of the foreground illumination and shadows. This is a two-section panorama with the Rokinon 14mm SP lens at f/2.5 and Canon 6D.
Twilight and the waxing Moon over the observing field at the Saskatchewan Summer Star Party in the Cypress Hills of southwest Saskatchewan in August 2017.
This is the first post-eclipse Moon I had a chance to see and shoot. This was August 23, 2017. The very thin Moon would have been visible the night before, August 22, 2017, but from my location that night in Helena, Montana, on my trip back home from Idaho, the sky was too smoky. The Sun disappeared above the horizon into the smoke as a red ball. So there was little hope of sighting that first post-eclipse crescent of a 1.5-day-old Moon. So this 2.5-day-old Moon, still in some haze, will have to do! This is with the Canon 60Da and 200mm lens, the same combination I used to shoot the last waning Moon before the eclipse, at dawn from Idaho on August 20.
