A 240° panorama of the fabulous dawn sky on July 5, 2020, filled with noctilucent clouds (NLCs) up to and beyond the zenith, as well as the array of four planets: Venus low on the horizon at left of centre, Mars at right of centre, and the pairing of Saturn and Jupiter (brightest) at far right, just above the setting Full Moon. The Moon had undergone a partial penumbral eclipse at moonrise 6 hours earlier. The Big Dipper and Polaris are at far left. Altair is the star above Jupiter and Saturn. This truly was an amazing sky! Comet NEOWISE was also in the scene but too small to record here. This is a panorama of 8 segments, each 1 second at f/2.8 with the Rokinon 14mm SP lens and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 100. Stitched with PTGui as ACR would not handle images from such a wide lens.
Circumpolar star trails stacked with a comet-like effect, turning over a canola field in southern Alberta. A stack of several dozen 1-minute exposures with 10-22m lens at f/3.5 and the Canon 60Da camera at ISO 1600. Light is from the waning Moon off camera to the right.
The arc of the Northern Lights and auroral oval over Crawling Lake, Alberta, as well as the arch of the summer Milky Way, in a 360° panorama, on the night of June 24/25, 2017. The location was on the causeway on the dam at the south end of the reservoir/lake. The sky is blue from the glow of all-night perpertual twilight at this time of year near solstice. Arcturus and the Big Dipper are at left, with Jupiter just setting amid the clouds at far left. Polaris is just left of the peak of the auroral arc which is centred slightly east of north from my longitude. The Summer Triangle stars are at right over the roadway. The galactic centre is above the south horizon at far right. Saturn is amid the Dark Horse in the Milky Way at far right, low above the horizon. This is a stitch of 8 segments with the 14mm Rokinon SP lens, mounted vertically, each 30 seconds at f/2.5 and ISO 3200 with the Canon 6D. Panning and shooting was done automatically with the SYRP Mini Genie in its panorama mode. Stitched with PTGui.
