The summer Milky Way across the entire sky, 180° x 360°, in a fish-eye view taken at the Saskatchewan Summer Star Party, August 2012. This is a stack of five x 5 minute exposures at f/4.5 and ISO 1600 with the Sigma 8mm lens and Canon 5D MkII camera. All tracked. The ground is from one exposure; the ground in the other 4 exposures was masked out to minimize blurring of the ground over the 25 minutes of exposure time. A faint aurora and airglow adds some horizon colour.
The autumn and winter Milky Way rising, from Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan at the Summer Star Party, August 2012. This is a stack of 5 x 6 minute exposures at ISO 1600 with the Canon 5D MkII and Canon 15mm lens at f/4. The ground is a blurred blend of all 5 exposures. The Andromeda Galaxy is at centre; Jupiter is rising above the trees in Taurus; the Pleiades are above Jupiter.
The Sagittarius Milky Way area, around the centre of the Galaxy, over the trees and campsite at Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, Sasksatchewan. Taken August 17, 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. All taken from the same location -- the ground is not faked onto a separate sky shot. The horizon is in its true location.
