The Full Moon rising over the skyline of Calgary, on the evening of May 3, 2015. On this night the Moon rose about 15 minutes before sunset and so I was hoping to catch the buildings lighting up wth the last rays of the setting Sun as the Moon was rising behind them. However, horizon haze in the west and east obscured both the low Sun and low Moon. Here, the Moon appears as it rises out of the haze and still a pink tint. This is a frame from a 430-frame time-lapse sequence taken from the CFCN grounds on Broadcast Hill west of the city. This is with the Canon 60Da and 50mm lens. There was not an accessible location to the north that would have put the Moon rising over the city itself. That geometry won’t happen until September’s Full Moon which is also a total eclipse night in the evening after moonrise.
Venus (bright at top) and Mercury (faint and low in the twilight) with both planets about as high as they will get this spring at my latitude of 51° N in Alberta. Mercury’s date of greatest elongation is May 6. I shot this May 2, 2015 from the bridge over the Red Deer River near Dorothy, Alberta. Light from the nearly Full Moon rising in the east behind me provides some of the landscape illumination. This is a high dynamic range stack of 5 exposures at 1-stop intervals, using the Canon 6D and 35mm lens.
The waxing crescent Moon and Venus, in haze, over the old barn near home in southern Alberta. Clouds in the west thwarted plans tonight to shoot from the mountains so I the best of my local venue, though even here clouds fuzzed the Moon and Venus. This is a stack of three exposures: a short 3s one for the Moon itself, a longer 13s one for the sky, and an even longer 30s exposure for the barn and ground. They were manually stacked and masked. All were with the 35mm lens at f/4 and Canon 6D at ISO 200.
