A panorama of the Northern Lights along my northern horizon from home in southern Alberta, on October 7/8, 2018, Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. After much weather delay the harvest was in fact in progress, thus the lights from combines and trucks to the north at left. The canola field where I am standing was harvested just that afternoon. The predictions were for a Kp5 to 6 display, but it seemed lower at Kp4 and never became more than a horizon arc with little activity from my location. Sites in far northern Alberta and the NWT saw a great display. Capella and the Pleiades are rising at right. The Big Dipper is low in the northwest at left. This is a stitch of 5 segments, each with the 24mm Sigma Art lens at f/4, and Nikon D750 at ISO 1600, for 30 seconds each. Stitched with Adobe Camera Raw.
A bright sky-filling aurora at Tibbitt Lake on the Ingraham Trail east of Yellowknife, NWT, with the aurora lighting the ground green. This was September 8/9, 2018. The Big Dipper is at centre. This is 2.5-seconds at f/2 with the Venus Optics 15mm lens and Sony a7IIII at ISO 3200.
A bright arc of aurora over the still waters of Tibbitt Lake, at the end of the Ingraham Trail all-weather road east of Yellowknife, NWT. This was the night of September 8/9, 2018 during a very fine display. Vega and Altair and the Milky Way are at left. The Big Dipper and Polaris are at right. This is a single exposure for the sky, and a mean-stacked blend of 5 exposures for the ground and water to smooth noise. All are 6 seconds at f/2.8 with the Rokinon 12mm full-frame fish-eye lens on the Nikon D750 at ISO 6400.
