The winter constellations of the northern hemisphere sky, rising on a January night, from Canada, above a snowy prairie landscape. Sirius is just rising in the horizon glow. The scene extends up to Capella in Auriga near the zenith at top. Jupiter is the bright object above centre in Taurus. Taken from home on January 6, 2013, with the modified Canon 5D Mark II at ISO 800 and 15mm Canon lens at f/2.8, for a stack of 3 x 4 minute exposures. The landscape is from just one frame, to avoid blurring of the horizon. Light polluted haze moving in from the right, west. Taken from southern Alberta, Canada.
The constellation of Orion, in vertical portrait format, with the 50mm Sigma lens at f/2.8 and Canon 60Da camera at ISO 800 for a stack of 4 x 4 minutes plus 2 x 3 minutes with the Kenko Softon filter to add the star glows. Shot from home from my front yard with the Kenko SkyMemo tracker.
The constellation of Orion and its included and surrounding nebulas, taken from Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, December 13/14, 2012, with Sigma 50mm lens at f/3.2 and the filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 800 for stack of 6 x 4 minute exposures. Some exposures had light cirrus cloud passing through which added the star glows naturally. I have turned Orion right side up but from Australia Orion would appear upside down -- the part of the frame closest to the horizon when I took this was the top of the frame. Belelgeuse is at upper left, Rigel at lower right.
