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.
