The last of an all-sky aurora fades into the encroaching dawn, as Orion (at right) and the winter stars rise into an August morning. The Pleiades and the stars of Taurus are at upper right. The Big Dipper is at lower left. Polaris is at upper left. Gemini is low at the end of the auroral curtain at right, while Procyon is just rising below, in a “heliacal rising” jiust before the dawn. I shot this from home at 5 am but just a little too late to catch the display at its best over most of the sky. This is a single 10-second exposure at f/2.8 with the 15mm lens at Canon 6D at ISO 1600, shot from home in southern Alberta.
The Big Dipper over an abandoned pioneer house, near Bow Island, Alberta, with the scene lit by the almost Full Moon, July 30, 2015. This is a single frame from a 300-frame time-lapse dolly sequence.
A rustic and tilted farm shed and tractor on an abandoned farmyard near Bow Island, Alberta, with illumination from an almost Full Moon, July 30, 2015. The bowl of the Big Dipper is at upper left. This is a single frame from a 300-frame panning time-lapse.
