The Big Dipper with its handle pointing toward Arcturus rising in the early spring sky in the Badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, on March 29, 2019. This serves as an illustration of the Big Dipper handle pointing across the sky to Arcturus, in the “arc to Arcturus” star finding tip. The Coma Berenices cluster is below the Dipper at right. Polaris is at the edge at left. This is a stack of 4 x 30 second exposures for the ground to smooth noise and a single 30 second exposure for the sky to minimize trailing, all at f/2.8 and ISO 4000 with the Sigma 14mm Art lens and Nikon D750. I added an Orton glow effect to the landscape with Luminar 3 plugin.
Auroral curtains in an overhead coronal burst swirling at the zenith during a fine display on March 1, 2019, as seen from the deck of the Hurtigruten ferry ship the ms Trollfjord, while in port in Båtsfjord, Norway. The Big Dipper is at upper right; Cassiopeia at lower left, and Polaris in the centre amid the aurora. This is a single 1-second exposure at f/2 with the Venus Optics 15mm lens and Sony a7III at ISO 3200. It was taken from port with the ship stationary and amid the port lights.
The arc of the auroral oval across the northern sky, in Churchill, Manitoba. I shot this February 7, 2019. Polaris is just left of top centre; Cassiopeia is at left; the Big Dipper is at right. This is a single exposure, 20 seconds, at f/2.8, with the 12mm full-frame fish-eye lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 1600.
