Orion and the winter stars rising on a late October night, with Sirius just clearing the horizon at centre bottom, Capella and the Pleiades are at top. M44 cluster is at far left. Taken with the Canon 15-35mm RF lens at 15mm and f/2.8 and the EOS Ra camera at ISO 800 as part of testing. A stack of 4 x 2-minute exposures on the Star Adventurer.
A panorama of the Kp5 level aurora seen October 24-25, 2019 from home in a panorama across the north. The aurora always appeared as a diffuse glow and arc without much structure or motion this night, though the patchy clouds didn’t help! But it shows how a bright aurora can shine through the clouds. And this illustrates the difference between the aurora borealis and “aurora commercialis!” — the urban sky glows. The light pollution from Calgary and Strathmore to the west light the sky yellow at left. Orion and the winter stars are rising at right. Polaris is left of centre at top. Deneb and Vega are in the northwest at left. This is a 6-segment panorama with the 15mm Venus Optics lens at f/2 and Sony a7III at ISO 1600 for 20 seconds each. Stitched with Adobe Camera Raw.
Orion at right, rising into the dawn sky on an August morning at Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, August 26, 2019. The waning crescent Moon is bright in the clouds at left. Castor and Pollux in Gemini are at left of the tree,; Procyon is rising to the right of the tree. Taken from the Two Trees Road — this is one of the trees! This is a stack of 5 exposures for the ground to smooth noise, and one exposure for the sky. All with the Nikon D750 and Sigma 24mm lens for 15 seconds at f/2.5 and ISO 1600.
