The summer and autumn Milky Way over Chief Mountain at Police Outpost Provincial Park, in southern Alberta, on September 26, 2016. Mars is just below M8 the Lagoon Nebula here. This is a stack of frames from the start of a time-lapse sequence with the western sky still blue with evening twilight. The ground is a stack of 8 exposures, mean combined to smooth noise, while the sky is from one exposure, the first in 400 in the time-lapse. Each exposure is 20 seconds at f/2.5 with the 20mm Sigma lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 6400.
The Harvest Moon of September 16, 2016, rising over the badlands of the Red Deer River valley from Orkney Viewpoint, north of Drumheller, Alberta. The blue arc of the rising shadow of the Earth projected onto the upper atmosphere curves across the sky, mirroring the curving arc of the river below. A photographer at far right captures the scene of the moonrise over the Badlands. This is a 7-section single-tier panorama with the 20mm Sigma lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 100. Stitched with Adobe Camera Raw.
The waxing gibbous Moon, two days before full and the true Harvest Moon, rising over a just-swathed (that afternoon!) wheatfield near home in southern Alberta. The blue arc of the Earth’s shadow is rising almost due east at the end of the windrows which are oriented east-west. The pink Belt of Venus above the shadow arc was not obvious tonight. Some very subtle anti-crepuscular rays converge toward the anti-solar point where the Moon will be on Full Moon night. This is a 6-segment panorama with the 24mm lens and Nikon D750, stitched with Adobe Camera Raw.
