A shot from many taken this night, May 23, 2014 in hopes of catching a meteor (or many) from the new Camelopardalid shower from Comet LINEAR 209P. No luck getting any meteors this night but this frame captures a glow rising from the magenta aurora low in the north. The lights of Medicine Hat, Alberta light the clouds to the left (northwest). The vertical curtain is a glow from a fuel dump from a rocket booster to the Japanese Daichi-2 radar scanning satellite lauched earlier that day. Many people around the continent saw and shot the same effect. See http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/05/japanese-hii-a-launch-alos-2-mission/ This view is looking due north from the Horseshoe Canyon viewpoint in Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, Alberta just north of Elkwater. This is with the 15mm lens and Canon 6D, on the iOptron SkyTracker.
An Iridium satellite flare over Castle Mountain, Banff, Aug 24, 2013, above the Big Dipper. The scene is lit by light from the waning gibbous Moon. Part of a 150-frame time-lapse sequece.
The Space Station in a multi-exposure composite, in a pass over the Meadows Campground at Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, at the 2013 Saskatchewan Summer Star Party, August 10, 2013. Each frame was 30 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 800 with the Canon 5D MkII and 15mm lens. The ISS passed from left to right, west to east, passing high overhead above Polaris.
