A 180° panorama from the first of the Vermilion Lakes, on October 2, 2016. The view is looking east, at left, to the Banff townsite and Mount Rundle, and to the south, at centre, toward Sulphur Mountain, and to the southwest, at right, toward the Milky Way over the Sundance Range. Light pollution from Banff lights the sky at left, while green bands of natural airglow colour the sky right of centre. This is a panorama of 6 segments, with the Sigma 20mm lens at f/2.2 for 20 seconds each, with the Nikon D750 at ISO 6400.
The Milky Way over Chief Mountain at Police Outpost Provincial Park, in southern Alberta, on September 26, 2016. This is a stack of frames from the start of a time-lapse sequence with the western sky still blue with evening twilight. The ground is a stack of 8 exposures, mean combined to smooth noise, while the sky is from one exposure, the first in 400 in the time-lapse. Each exposure is 20 seconds at f/2.5 with the 20mm Sigma lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 6400.
The summer and autumn Milky Way over Chief Mountain at Police Outpost Provincial Park, in southern Alberta, on September 26, 2016. Mars is just below M8 the Lagoon Nebula here. This is a stack of frames from the start of a time-lapse sequence with the western sky still blue with evening twilight. The ground is a stack of 8 exposures, mean combined to smooth noise, while the sky is from one exposure, the first in 400 in the time-lapse. Each exposure is 20 seconds at f/2.5 with the 20mm Sigma lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 6400.