The Big Dipper on the ascent over the moonlit badland hills of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, on November 27, 2017. The DIpper points up to Polaris and the Little Dipper. The Moon was a day past first quarter. This is a stack of 6 x 15-second exposures for the ground, mean combined to smooth noise, and a single 15-second exposure for the sky, all with the Rokinon 14mm lens at f/2.5 and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 1600, with LENR on. I applied a 3-pixel Gaussian blur to a duplicate sky layer, blended with Lighten, to add an “Orton effect” style glow to the stars.
Looking north to the Big Dipper with my car parked for the night at a favourite shooting spot in Dinosaur Provincial Park. The Moon was a day past first quarter. This is a stack of 6 x 15-second exposures for the ground, mean combined to smooth noise, and a single 15-second exposure for the sky, all with the Rokinon 14mm lens at f/2.5 and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 1600, with LENR on.
A weak Kp 0 to 1 aurora to the north but here astern of the ship m/s, Nordlys as we head southerly on November 5, 2017 near the top of Norway between Honningsvåg and Kirkenes. The Big Dipper is at right; Vega is at left.
