The arc of Northern Lights starting a show in the deep twilight over Prelude Lake on the Ingraham Trail near Yellowknife, NWT. This was September 9, 2019. Light from the waxing gibbous Moon behind the camera also illumimates the scene. The autumn colours make for a good contrast with the sky colours. This was from the lookout point above the lake and main parking area and boat launch. The Big Dipper is at left; Capella is at centre; the Pleiades and Hyades are rising at right of centre. This is a 5-segment panorama with the 15mm Laowa lens at f/2 and Sony a7III at ISO 800 and all at 25 seconds. Stitched with PTGui, as ACR and Photoshop refused to joint the left segments.
Guests in the Learning Vacations program at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre view the aurora on their first night of the program for 2019 on January 31. This is looking east, with the Big Dipper at left and Orion at right.
The arc of the Northern Lights and auroral oval over Crawling Lake, Alberta, as well as the arch of the summer Milky Way, in a 360° panorama, on the night of June 24/25, 2017. The location was on the causeway on the dam at the south end of the reservoir/lake. The sky is blue from the glow of all-night perpertual twilight at this time of year near solstice. Arcturus and the Big Dipper are at left, with Jupiter just setting amid the clouds at far left. Polaris is just left of the peak of the auroral arc which is centred slightly east of north from my longitude. The Summer Triangle stars are at right over the roadway. The galactic centre is above the south horizon at far right. Saturn is amid the Dark Horse in the Milky Way at far right, low above the horizon. This is a stitch of 8 segments with the 14mm Rokinon SP lens, mounted vertically, each 30 seconds at f/2.5 and ISO 3200 with the Canon 6D. Panning and shooting was done automatically with the SYRP Mini Genie in its panorama mode. Stitched with PTGui.
