A 120° panorama of the initial arc of Northern Lights at the start of an evening of aurora during a G2 storm on October 11/12, 2021, Thanksgiving Day in Canada. This was from home in southern Alberta, Canada. Moonlight from the waxing crescent Moon tints the sky. Note the subtle shades of red and variations of green in the arc. The panorama shows off the classic auroral oval centred on the direction of the north magnetic pole, to the northeast of true north at my longitude in western Canada. The Big Dipper is at left and its Pointer stars in the bowl point up to true north (Polaris is off the frame). This is a panorama of 13 segments at 15° spacings, with the RF 28-70mm lens at 28mm and at f/2 on the Canon R6 at ISO 1600 for 4 seconds each. Stitched with Adobe Camera Raw.
The Zodiacal Light in the dawn sky, September 14, 2021, from home in Alberta, with the winter sky rising. The Big Dipper is at far left. Orion and the winter stars are at right, with the Milky Way rising vertically across the frame. The Zodiacal Light is the pyramid-shaped glow angled to the right rising out of the eastern sky. Dawn twilight colours the sky. This is a stack of 4 x 30-second exposures for the ground to smooth noise, and a single 30-second exposure for the sky, all with the TTArtisan 8mm fish-eye lens at f/2 and on the Canon R6 at ISO 1600.
The Zodiacal Light in the dawn sky, September 14, 2021, from home in Alberta, with the winter sky rising. Orion and the winter stars are at far right with Sirius rising. The Big Dipper is at far left. The winter Milky Way appears vertically across the frame. The Zodiacal Light is the pyramid-shaped glow angled to the right rising out of the eastern sky. Dawn twilight colours the sky. This is a stack of 5 x 30-second exposures for the ground to smooth noise, and a single 30-second exposure for the sky, all with the TTArtisan 11mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/2.8 and on the Canon R6 at ISO 3200. All untracked on a static tripod.
