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.
The Columbia Icefields and Athabasca Glacier in Jasper National Park, just before the waning Moon rose over the mountains to light the foreground, but as it was already lighting the peaks around the Icefields. The Milky Way is fading into the blue sky of a moonlit night. The Moon is rising just left of centre below the Pleiades cluster. The Big Dipper is at far left to the north. This is a 360° panorama shot on the road (literally!) down to the toe of the Athabasca Glacier, using a 15mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/2.8 for 8 segments at 45° spacings, for 60 seconds at ISO 3200 with the Canon 5D MKII.
A 360° panorama of the Milky Way from Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, with an auroral arc across the northeast at left. The Big Dipper is at far left. Sagittarius and the centre of the Galaxy with the Dark Horse feature in the dark lanes are at right of centre, above the old corral that was once used here when this was the 76 Ranch, one of the largest ranches in Canada. It is now part of the Park. The Park is a Dark Sky Preserve - the lone lights here are searchlights from naturalists conducting a census of the endangered and noctural black-footed ferret introduced back into the Park several years ago. Otherwise there are no lights here in the Frenchman River valley coulee. It is very dark! I took this August 26, 2014 using the 14mm Rokinon lens in portrait orientation, taking 8 segments at 45° spacings, each 80 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 4000 with the Canon 6D.
