A 360° night panorama, lit by moonlight, taken from the boardwalk out to Pryamid Island on Pyramid Lake in Jasper National Park. Contructed in the 1930s, the Boardwalk takes you to a popular picnic spot, Pyramid Island at the north end of Pyramid Lake. The view across the water to the surrounding mountains is wonderful by day and by night. By night, this is a fabulous place for stargazing in this Dark Sky Preserve. Here, south is at left, toward Mt. Edith Cavell. To the southwest, the waxing gibbous Moon is setting. At right of centre, the Boardwalk leads to Pyramid Island itself, with Pyramid Mountain behind it. Right of the island is the Big Dipper. To the right of the image, to the northeast, there’s a weak aurora display. The Milky Way is faintly visible in the moonlit sky overhead. This an 8-segement panorama, taken with the 15mm full-frame fisheye lens and Canon 6D. Each segment was a 32-second exposure at f/2.8 and ISO 1250, stitched with PTGui.
Aurora over Osoyoos, BC, Canada, September 30, 2001 near solar maximum. 28mm lens at f/2.8, Fuji Provia 400F slide film, exposure about 30s in near full moonlight, providing the landscape illumination. Taken from Jack and Alice Newton's B&B location, overlooking Osoyoos Valley and lake, pn west slope of Anarchist Mountain.
The Milky Way arching over the scenic bend of the Red Deer River, Alberta, from the Orkney Viewpoint overlooking the Badlands and river valley, in a 300° panorama. To the north at left, a weak aurora shines along the horizon. Bands of airglow also colour the sky to the east at centre. To the south at right of centre, the Milky Way becomes lost amid the light pollution from Drumheller, Alberta, made more obvious by some clouds drifting through. One of my cameras is at right, shooting a time-lapse sequence. A bright Iridium satellite flare is at right, caught one of the panorama frames. Jupiter is at far right. And of course, I like the way the curve of the Milky Way is mirrored in the curve of the river, which is why I picked this spot and this night in spring, when the Milky Way is still arching across the east and not overhead as it is later in summer. This is a stitch of 6 segments with the Rokinon 12mm lens, in landscape mode, and Nikon D750. Each 45 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 3200. Stitched with PTGui. Taken on a mild and moonless night, May 20, 2017.
