A selfie with me in the backyard on a mild January night looking at M81 and M82 above the Big Dipper with binoculars. Shot for a book illustration. This is a single exposure with the Nikon D750 and Sigma 20mm Art lens.
The International Space Station (ISS) travels across the sky on December 2, 2019, beginning at 6:08 p.m. MST, from due west at left to due east at right, passing high in the north at centre in this 360° fish-eye view. At right, the ISS fades from view at it experiences sunset, dimming and reddening as it passes above the Pleiades. This was from home in Alberta with a waxing quarter Moon providing the illumination, with the Moon behind the camera due south and out of frame. This is looking due north. I am posing for a selfie with the Station. This is a stack of 7 x 40-second exposures for the ISS path, masked and blended in Lighten mode onto a single image for the sky, foreground, and me! That background layer was shot immediately after the last ISS frame. All with the 8mm Sigma fish-eye lens at f/3.5 and Canon EOS Ra at ISO 1000.
A panorama of the arc of the Northern Lights across the northern sky at right, from home in southern Alberta on November 21, 2019. At far left is the summer Milky Way setting while in between is the urban glow from cities to the west (notably Calgary) with the skyglow now blue-white from LEDs lights — it used to be yellow from sodium vapour lights. So this is a study in sky glows, both natural and artificial. The Big Dipper and Polaris are at centre over my house.. Capella in Auriga, Aldebaran and the Pleiades in Taurus, and the stars of Perseus are at right rising in the northeast. Altair and Aquila are at far left, setting in the southwest. This is a 6-segment panorama with the 15mm Venus Optics lens at f/2 on the Sony a7III for 20 seconds each at ISO 1600, stitched with ACR.
