The arch of the northern spring Milky Way across the eastern sky, as seen on a beautifully clear and mild spring night at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta on May 14, 2018. The galactic centre in Sagittarius is at right to the south. Jupiter is the bright object in the southwest at far right; above it Arcturus. The Summer Triangle stars are rising in the east at centre, including bright blue-white Vega at top centre. The Big Dipper is at far left. Due north and the North Star are at left toward the faint yellow-green and magenta glow of aurora on the horizon. Little of the aurora was visible to the eye. Bands of green and red airglow colour the sky at centre and at right to the south. The distinct and sharp-edged band of airglow was present all through the shooting session. This is a stitch of 21 segments, in 3 tiers of 7 each, taken with the Syrp Genie Mini controller in panorama mode, but with the camera manually raised from 0° to 30° to 60° altitude for each of the three tiers. The Mini did the azimuth panning and shutter control automatically. All exposures were 30 seconds at f/2.8 with the Sigma 20mm Art lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 6400. Stitching was with PTGui which did the job fast and seamlessly.
A 180° panorama looking south at sunset from the Howse Pass Viewpoint near Saskatchewan River Crossing on the Icefields Parkway at the David Thompson Highway 11 intersection. The scene includes the North Saskatchewan River, the peaks of the Continental Divide to the south including Mt. Cephren, and Mt. Murchison at left. Howse Pass, site of the famous passage used for a time by David Thompson in the fur trade in the early 1800s, is at right. The river plain here was also a sacred site for the Pikanii First Nation people. I shot the frames for this 6-section panorama August 12, 2014 using the Canon 5D MkII and Rokinon 14mm lens, portrait orientation, and stitched them with PTGui. The layout would make for a great 2-page spread in a magazine, with sky space for headlines and type.
