The northern Milky Way from Cygnus at right to Cassiopeia and northern Perseus at left, with boosted contrast to bring out faint nebulosity. Taken from Cypress Hills at the Saskatchewan Summer Star Party, August 18, 2012. Taken with the Canon L-series 24mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 5D MkII (modified) for a stack of 5 x 5 minute exposures at ISO 800.
The summer Milky Way in Sagittarius and Ophiuchus to the south along the horizon at 3 am on a May morning with the sky brightening and turning blue from dawn already. This was from my backyard at home in Alberta at latitude 51° North. The image also serves as a demo of an exposure time (45 seconds) exceeding the “500 Rule” and introducing some trailing. This was with the 35mm lens. The ground is a stack of 4 exposures, the sky from just one exposure. Also serves as a demo of Stack Modes for Workshops and articles. Shot as part of testing the SAM tracker.
A moonlit nightscape in the badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park, looking west to the setting summer Milky Way and the stars of Cygnus and Lyra, including Deneb and Lyra. Light is from the 8-day waxing Moon. It almost washes out the Milky Way. A stack of 4 x 15-second exposures mean combined to smooth noise for the ground, and a single 15-second exposure for the sky, all at f/2.5 with the Rokinon 14mm lens and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 1600.
