A 160° panorama looking south near summer solstice time in June 2018, with the bright planets Mars (left) and Jupiter (right) and their glitter paths on the water flanking the Milky Way and Saturn in Sagittarius above the pinkish Lagoon Nebula. The waxing Moon is setting off frame at right brightening the sky and lighting the landscape. The sky is also blue from the solstice twilight. The stars of Scorpius shine between Jupiter and the Milky Way. Some faint bands of red and green airglow are visible at left, despite the bright sky. This is a stitch of 8 segments, all for 25 seconds with the 35mm lens at f/2.2 and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 800. Stitched with ACR. An Orton effect with ON1 Photo RAW was added to soften the sky and add a sky glow. Taken June 19/20, 2018 from southern Alberta.
Mars (at left) and the galactic centre area of the summer Milky Way low over the southern horizon at Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, Alberta, on June 8/9, 2018. Sagittarus is at centre, with Scorpius at right. The Messier 6 and 7 open star clusters are just above the horizon at centre, just right of the Sweetgrass Hills on the horizon in Montana. This is a stack of 12 exposures for the ground, mean combined to smooth noise, and 1 exposure for the sky, all 30 seconds at f/2 with the Laowa 15mm lens on the Sony a7III camera at ISO 6400. These were the last frames in a 340-frame time-lapse sequence. At this time of year, the sky is always bright with deep blue perpetual twilight.
The 1910 Liberty Schoolhouse, a pioneer one-room school, on the Alberta prairie near Majorville, in the moonlight with an aurora across the north. Polaris is at top left. Cassiopeia is above the school. The 8-day waxing Moon provides the illumination. This is a stack of 4 exposures mean blended for the ground to smooth noise and one exposure for the sky, all 30 seconds at f/2.8 with the 15mm Loawa lens and Sony a7III at ISO 800. Special effect Luminar filters applied to the ground to add a vintage look to the scene.
