The southern summer Milky Way over mountains along Red Rock Canyon Road in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, August 31, 2013. The Small Sagittarius Starcloud, M24, is just above the ridge, while above it is the Scutum Starcloud and the stars of Aquila. This is a stack of 4 x 3 minute exposures for the sky, with the ground from one exposure, all tracked on the iOptron SkyTracker, with thr 24mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600.
A very wide angle image of the northern summer Milky Way from Cepheus (at top) to Serpens (at bottom), with the Summer Triangle stars at centre. The bright object at botton left is Jupiter. This is with the Canon 15-35mm lens at 15mm and wide open at f/2.8, in a stack of 5 x 2-minute tracked exposures at ISO 1250 with the stock Canon R6 camera, blended with a single exposure taken through a Kase/Alyn Wallace Starglow filter to add the fuzzy stars. Taken from home July 6, 2021 as a test of the lens.
The summer Milky Way in the southwest with the planets Jupiter (brightest) and Saturn (centre) to the east, over the Badlands formations at the Trail of the Fossil Hunters site at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta. The illumination of the sky and ground is from the rising last quarter Moon off frame to the east at left, adding the warm lighting naturally. Lights from the town of Brooks to the southwest adds the skyglow at right. This is a blend of tracked exposures for the sky and untracked for the ground: 2 x 2-minutes tracked for the sky at f/2.8 and ISO 1600, plus 2 x 5-minutes at f/4 and ISO 800 for the ground, all with the Canon 15-35mm RF lens on the Canon R6 camera, and on the Star Adventurer Mini tracker. Taken August 29, 2021. A mild Orton glow added with Luminar AI and some dodge/burn contrast enhancements brushed onto the foreground with TK Actions Paint Contrast action.
