Vertical curtains of aurora converging to the zenith overhead over the snowy boreal forest at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, Churchill, Manitoba. I shot this Feb 4, 2016 on a night with temperatures of -35° C with a slight wind. The Big Dpper is at right. Exposure was 10 seconds at f/2.8 with the 15mm lens anf Canon 6D at ISO 3200.
A composite of the Quadrantid meteor shower, on January 3, 2016, in a sequence of images shot over 2 hours from 9 to 11 pm MST from southern Alberta. This is a stack of 14 images, the best out of 600 shot that recorded meteors. The ground and sky comes from one image with the best Quad of the night, and the other images were masked and layered into that image, with no attempt to align their paths with the moving radiant point. However, over the 2 hours, the radiant point low in the north would not have moved too much, as it rose higher into the northern sky. Most of the meteors here are Quads, but the very bright bolide at left, while it looks like it is coming from the radiant, it is actually streaking toward the radiant, and is not a Quadrantid. But oh so close! I left it in the composite for the sake of the nice composition! Light clouds moving in added the natural star glows around the Big Dipper stars. All frames were 10 seconds at f/2 with the 24mm lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 3200.
A lone Quadrantid meteorseen through thin cloud streaks below the Big Dipper during the 2016 Quadrantid meteor shower in the night of January 3, 2016. A very faint and distant aurora adds a green glow to the northern horizon. I shot this as part of a 600-frame time lapse that captured several other meteors, including a very bright bolide, but none were obviously Quadrantids coming from the radiant low in the north. This is a 10-second exposure at f/2 with the 24mm Sigma Art lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 3200, shot from home looking northeast. Clouds added the natural glows around the stars of the Big Dipper.
