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.
A framing of the Milky Way in Sagitta and Vulpecula below Cygnus. The stars of Sagitta the Arrow are at lower left. The distinctive asterism, the Coathanger, is at lower right embedded in the dark lanes of the Milky Way. It is also called Collinder 399 and Brocchi's Cluster. The green Dumbbell Nebula, M27, is just left of centre. The star Albireo is at top. Faint nebulosity inhabits the area, such as NGC 6820 left of the Coathanger, but as this was shot with an unmodified camera the red nebulas don't show up well here. The field is about 24° by 16°. This is a stack of 10 x 2-minute exposures with the Rokinon RF85mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon R5 at ISO 800, on the Star Adventurer tracker. Taken from home on Sept. 26/27, 2022. Stacked and aligned in Photoshop. A mild star glow effect added with Luminar AI.
The Milky Way over the region of Athabasca Pass, as seen from the highway viewpoint on the Icefields Parkway, in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Oct 22, 2016. It was this pass that David Thompson used primarily in the later 1700s and early 1800s as his route into BC for extending the fur trade across the Divide. He travelled back and forth across this pass during his employment with the North West Company. His Narratives provides great quote about his experience one winter night on the summit of the Pass: “My men were not at their ease, yet when night came they admired the brilliancy of the Stars, and as one of them said, he thought he could almost touch them with his hand.” The Milky Way here is the section through Aquila, with Altair at top and Mars bright above the peaks of the Continental Divide. Illumination is by starlight. This is a stack of 8 exposures, mean combined to smooth noise, for the ground and one exposure for the sky, all 25 seconds at f/2 with the Sigma 20mm lens, and Nkion D750 at ISO 6400.
