The Big and Little Dippers, and Polaris, over Castle Mountain in Banff National Park, with the scene lit by starlight. A faint aurora adds the sky colour, as does the oncoming morning twilight. This is a 3-segment vertical panorama, each 30 seconds at f/2 with the Sigma 24mm lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 3200. Stitched with Adobe Camera Raw.
A scene of Earth and sky, with Big Dipper over the late Cretaceous sedimentary layers of the Red Deer River Badlands. The Big Dipper is at top pointing down to Polaris and the Little Dipper, over the moonlit Badlands on Highway 10 east of Drumheller, Alberta. Light from the waxing gibbous Moon provides the illumination on April 26, 2018. This is a stack of 5 x 15-second exposures for the ground to smooth noise, and one 15-second exposure for the sky, all at f/4 with the Rokinon 14mm SP lens and Sony a7III camera at ISO 800. Nik Sharpener applied to the ground. The Dipper is distorted slightly by the pincushion distortion of the 14mm lens. The Moon off frame to the right adds the gradient to the sky.
A view looking straight up to the zenith with the isolated auroral arc known as STEVE arcing across the sky, with his characteristic pink color and showing some fingers of green in his usual picket fence appearance. This was about 1:40 am MDT time on April 10 at home in southern Alberta. The Big Dipper is above centre; Arcturus is below and left. Leo and Regulus are at lower right. The naked eye Coma Berenices cluster is below centre. This was with the Canon 6D MkII and Rokinon 14mm SP.
