The autumn Milky Way rising, from Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan at the Summer Star Party, August 2012. This is a stack of 5 x 2 minute exposures, tracked, at ISO 1600 with the Canon 24mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 5D MkII camera. The ground is from one exposure. A faint aurora adds the horizon tint.
The summer Milky Way over a tent at the Meadows Campground at the Saskatchewan Summer Star Party, in Cypress Hills Saskatchewan. This is a stack of 4 x 2 minute exposures at f/2.8 with the Canon 24mm lens and Canon 5DMkII at ISO 1600. The foreground is from one exposure; the foreground is masked out of the other 3 images in the stack to minimize blurring of the foreground by the tracking camera.
