The Big Dipper in bright moonlight over Wilcox Peak and the Glacier View Inn and parking area at the Columbia Icefields. The unshielded sodium vapour lights provide unwanted glare at an otherwise pristine dark site in a Dark Sky Preserve. This is a single 20-second exposure with the 16-35mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1000.
A 360° horizon panorama of Pyramid Lake and Pyramid Island from the boardwalk out to the island, in Jasper National Park, Alberta. At left is the setting waxing gibbous Moon in the southwest, at left of centre in the north is the Big Dipper over the boardwalk and Pyramid Mountain. At right of centre is a faint aurora to the northeast. To the right of that is the Pleiades star cluster rising in the east. This is a 12-section panorama taken with the 24mm lens and Canon 6D, each segment a 32-second exposure at f/2.8 and ISO 1250. This was stitched in Photoshop CS 2014.
Star trails over Patricia Lake and Pyramid Mountain in Jasper National Park. Moonlight provides the illumination and a faint aurora is at lower right in the northeast. The Big Dipper is the main pattern right of centre. This is a stack of about 100 frames to create the star trails using Advanced Stacker Plus actions in Photoshop with the Long Comet streaks effect. Two additional single frames are layered in, one for the ground from one of the frames and another for the sky to create the point-like stars after a gap at the ends of the trails. This frame came from a minute or so after the last trail frame was taken. Each exposure was 20 seconds at ISO 1600 with the Canon 60Da and Rokinon 14mm lens at f/2.8. The frames had to be cropped to cut out car lights from a road off frame at right.
