A wide-angle view from horizon to the zenith of the northern hemisphere spring sky, taken early May 2013 from home, using 14mm Samyang lens at f/2.8, and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600 for stack of 5 x 3 minute exposures, tracked. The ground is from one exposure. Leo and Regulus are at right, Arcturus at left, and Spica and Saturn at lower left. The Big Dipper is at top. Corvus is at bottom. In the centre is the Coma Berenices star cluster, aka Mel111.
A moonlit nightscape taken at Num-Ti-Jah Lodge, Bow Lake, Banff, Alberta on July 7/8, 2012. Illumination is from the waning gibbous Moon behind the camera. This is looking north toward the Big Dipper and Polaris with the lodge in the foreground and Mt Jimmy Simpson, named for the lodge's builder, at left. This is from a series of 260 frames taken over 3.5 hours for a time-lapse sequence, with a stack of 8 for the ground and a single image for the sky. All were 50 seconds at f/4 and ISO 1250 with the Canon 5D MkII and 16-35mm lens at 16mm. A faint red aurora is visible at right.
