Noctilucent clouds at 3 am on June 27 over a prairie pond in southern Alberta. The NLCs were visible as an arc across the north for at least 2 hours and were still there as dawn twilight brightened at 3:30 am. This is looking due north with the stars of the Big Dipper at upper left. Capella is at lower right. Shot with the 20mm lens.
Noctilucent clouds at 3 am on June 27 over a prairie pond in southern Alberta. The NLCs were visible as an arc across the north for at least 2 hours and were still there as dawn twilight brightened at 3:30 am. This is looking due north with the bowl of the Big Dipper at upper left. Capella is at lower right. Shot with the 24mm lens.
The Big Dipper and the complete constellation of Ursa Major, the Great Bear, in the northwest on a summer evening, amid the solstice twilight at Forget-Me-Not Pond, Kananaskis, Alberta. Polaris is at the very top. This is a stack of 4 exposures for the ground to smooth noise and 1 exposure for the sky, all 30 seconds at f/2.2 and ISO 3200 with the Sigma 24mm lens and Nikon D750.
