Orion and the northern winter constellations, such as Canis Major, Gemini and Taurus, rising into a moonlit November night, from home in Alberta. The Beehive Cluster is the fuzzy spot at left, in Cancer below the stars of Gemini. Light is from the waxing gibbous Moon off frame at right. This is a stack of 4 x 20-second exposures for the ground and one 20-second exposure for the sky, all untracked with the Nikkor 14-24mm lens at f/4 and 14mm, and the Nikon D810a at ISO 1600.
This is a portrait of the winter sky rising in the southeast on January 9, 2021, taken from home in Alberta. The constellation of Orion is at centre with blue-white Sirius in Canis Major below and reddish-yellow Aldebaran in Taurus above. Castor and Pollux in Gemini are at left. Procyon in Canis Minor is between the Castor-Pollux pair and Sirius. Bright star clusters flank the scene, with the Pleiades (M45) at top and the Beehive Cluster (M44) in Cancer at far left. Several other smaller star clusters in and along the Milky Way are also visible, even at this scale with an ultra-wide lens. This is a stack of 10 30-second tracked exposures with the 15mm Venus Optics Laowa lens at f/4 on the Sony a7III at ISO 6400. and taken as part of lens testing this night.
This is a portrait of the winter sky rising in the southeast on January 9, 2021, taken from home in Alberta. I added labels to this version. The constellation of Orion is at centre with blue-white Sirius in Canis Major below and reddish-yellow Aldebaran in Taurus above. Castor and Pollux in Gemini are at left. Procyon in Canis Minor is between the Castor-Pollux pair and Sirius. Bright star clusters flank the scene, with the Pleiades (M45) at top and the Beehive Cluster (M44) at far left. Several other smaller star clusters in and along the Milky Way are also visible, even at this scale with an ultra-wide lens. This is a stack of 10 30-second tracked exposures with the 15mm Venus Optics Laowa lens at f/4 on the Sony a7III at ISO 6400. and taken as part of lens testing this night.
