The eclipsed Moon, October 8, 2014, over the Milk River and Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in Alberta, with the Sweetgrass Hills of Montana to the south at left. The Moon was in total eclipse when I took this, and shines at right as a bright red glow. Lights from Coutts and towns in Montana light the clouds on the horizon. Orion and the winter stars stand at left, with Sirius at far left and Aldebaran and the Pleiades at top centre. The buildings in the valley below are the old NWMP outpost buildings from the late 1800s. The night was partly cloudy and hazy, thus the glows around stars and the Moon. This is a 1-minute exposure at f/2.8 with the 14mm Rokinon lens and Canon 6D at ISO 6400. The ground however is from a stack of 5 x 1 minute exposures to smooth noise.
The constellation of Andromeda (the arc of stars at left) and associated autumn constellations over Mt. Andromeda (at right) at the Columbia Icefelds in Jasper National Park, Alberta. The waxing gibbous Moon is over Mt. Andromeda at right. Cassiopeia is at upper left, the Pleiades are rising at lower left. Pegasus is at centre; Perseus is at far left. Altair is at upper right. The Moon adds some lens flares. This is an HDR stack of 3 exposures at 1-stop intervals (5s, 10s and 20s) with the Canon 15mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/2.8 and Canon 6D at ISO 800. Shot from the lower parking lot at Athabasca Glacier.
The stars of autumn rising over Mount Kerkeslin and Athabasca Falls in Jasper National Park, Alberta, on a night with a waxing quarter Moon illuminating the landscape. I shot this Sept 3, 2014. This is a stack of 100 images (out of 165 shot in a time-lapse series), each 45 seconds at f/2.8 with the 14mm Rokinon lens, and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 3200. The landscape comes from one image shot at the beginning of the sequence with a higher Moon lighting up more of the landscape. Even so, the falls were dark and in shadow. The star trails were created by stacking in Photoshop with the Advanced Stacker Plus actions from Star Circle Academy, using the Comets mode.
