A 360° fish-eye panorama of the winter sky in mid-February, shot from home in southern Alberta. Orion is to the south at bottom, with the winter Milky Way arcing across the sky from southeast, at bottom, to northwest, at top. A faint glow of Zodiacal Light extends across the sky from west (right) to east (left). Urban sky glow lights the sky to the west. To the north at top, an auroral arc extends along the horizon. The Big Dipper is at upper left in the northeast. Polaris is at top centre. Venus is bright and setting low in the west at right. Leo is rising in the east at left. This is a stitch of 6 segments, each shot with the Rokinon 12mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/2.8, for 30 seconds each at ISO 6400 with the Nikon D750. Stitched with PTGui.
Dinosaur Park in Alberta, at moonrise on May 26, 2013, with a weak aurora to the north. Lighting is from the rising nearly Full Moon off frame to the right and twilight to the left. A stack of 100 frames from a 370-frame time-lapse, each frame at 20 seconds at f/4 with the Canon 10-22mm lens at 10mm and Canon 60Da at ISO 1250. Combined in Long Streak mode with StarCircleAcademy Advanced Star Trails
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.
