Leo rising in the east along with the northern hemisphere spring stars. The Big Dipper is at upper left, with the handle pointing down to Arcturus at bottom left. The Bowl of the Dipper points down to the right to Regulus and the stars of Leo. Above Leo is the star cluster M44, the Beehive, in Cancer. Below Leo at centre is the star cluster Mel 111, the Coma Berenices star cluster near the North Galactic Pole. Numerous satellite trails are visible. I didn’t clone them out. This is a vertical panorama of 4 frames, with the 20mm Sigma Art lens at f/2 and 25 seconds at ISO 3200 with the Nikon D750. Stitched with PTGui using Transverse Equirectangular projection.
The constellation of Leo and the Coma Berenices star cluster (at left) aka Mel 111. Taken from New Mexico, March 2013, with the 50mm Sigma lens at f/4 and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 800 for a stack of 5 x 7 minute exposures + 2 exposures taken through the Kenko Softon filter for the star glows. The slight brightening at bottom is from Gegenschein.
A composite of 5 frames from a 200-frame time-lapse attempting to record the Leonid meteor shower in 2014. 5 Leonids are recorded here near centre where Leo is rising in the east. Jupiter is the bright object at lower right. One bright sporadic meteor is at far left not part of the meteor shower. The Big Dipper is at left as well, with the handle having jusr risen. The green is from airglow. While the Leonid meteors shown here were recorded over a two hour period, the stars are from the last frame of the set of five, so the meteors are not positioned with respect to the rising radiant point but with respect to the sky on the fixed camera. Each frame was 30 seconds at ISO 4000 with the Canon 6D and 14mm lens at f/2.8. Taken from near Silver City, New Mexico.
