The autumn constellations of Perseus, Cassiopeia and Andromeda over Mount Kerkeslin at the Athabasca River Viewpoint on the Icefields Parkway, in Jasper National Park, Alberta. The Andromeda Galaxy is at upper right. The Pleiades are just clearing the mountain top at lower right. Thin clouds add the natural glows around the stars. Illumination is from starlight. This is a stack of 8 exposures, mean combined to smooth noise, for the ground and one exposure for the sky, all 25 seconds at f/2 with the Sigma 20mm lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 6400.
The Milky Way over the region of Athabasca Pass, as seen from the highway viewpoint on the Icefields Parkway, in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Oct 22, 2016. It was this pass that David Thompson used primarily in the later 1700s and early 1800s as his route into BC for extending the fur trade across the Divide. He travelled back and forth across this pass during his employment with the North West Company. His Narratives provides great quote about his experience one winter night on the summit of the Pass: “My men were not at their ease, yet when night came they admired the brilliancy of the Stars, and as one of them said, he thought he could almost touch them with his hand.” The Milky Way here is the section through Aquila, with Altair at top and Mars bright above the peaks of the Continental Divide. Illumination is by starlight. This is a stack of 8 exposures, mean combined to smooth noise, for the ground and one exposure for the sky, all 25 seconds at f/2 with the Sigma 20mm lens, and Nkion D750 at ISO 6400.
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.
