The Sagittarius Milky Way area, around the centre of the Galaxy, over the trees and campsite at Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, Sasksatchewan. Taken August 16, 2012 at the Saskatchewan Summer Star Party. This is a composite of 6 exposures: all 2 minutes at f/2.8 and ISO 1600 with the Canon 5D MkII and Sigma 50mm lens, but 5 exposures were tracked and 1 exposure was untracked to prevent the ground from blurring. Ground is from the untracked exposure, sky is from the stack of 5 tracked exposures.
Milky Way over Saskatchewan River in Banff, Alberta, Sept. 3, 2011, looking south to peaks of the continental divide and the Mistaya Valley at left and Howse Pass at right. This is one frame of 395 of a time-lapse sequence, taken with the Canon 5D MkII at ISO 2500 and Sigma 8mm lens at f/4 for 45 seconds. The waxing quarter Moon is the bright object at right just about to set behind the mountain range.
A 360° panorama and more than 100° from the ground to the zenith, taken at the Two Trees hilltop viewpoint in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, August 25, 2014. Sagittarius is at right at the end of the road, where the Milky Way is setting, while Perseus, Auriga and the Pleiades are at left at the other end of the road where the Milky Way is rising. The green bands are from airglow but some aurora is to the north behind the bare tree. The lights are from the town of Val Marie and farmlights from out on the prairie outside the Park boundaries. The Big Dipper is between the two trees. I used the 14mm Rokinon lens in portrait mode for a set of 8 segments, each 80 seconds at ISO 3200 and f/2.8 wih the Canon 6D.
