The waxing crescent Moon over the skyline of Calgary on January 18, 2018. I shot this from Tom Campbell Park area looking southwest to the sunset twilight. This is a 2-segment panorama, each segment being a 7-image HDR stack, all blended with Adobe Camera Raw. Shot with the 50mm lens and Canon 6D MkII.
A composite of 4 exposures of the rising Full Moon on New Year’s Day, 2018, rising from left to right over a snowy prairie horizon in southern Alberta. This was the largest and closest Full Moon of 2018 and so ranked as a “supermoon,” or perigean Full Moon. It is the first Full Moon of January, as the next Full Moon is January 31, when the Moon will also be totallty eclipsed. Layers of warm air aloft moving in after an extreme cold snap of -30° C temperatures created the inversion layer which led to the very distorted lunar disk as it rose. Segments of the disk snapping off at the top and bottom presented slight green (first two images) and red flashes (last two images) or tinted segments on the edge of the disk. This is a composite of 4 out of 500 images shot for a time-lapse sequence, layered in Photoshop. All were with the 66mm f/7 William Optics apo refractor and Canon 60Da camera firing 1/25th second exposures every 1 second.
The bright star Aldebaran about to be occulted by the waning gibbous Moon on the morning of September 12, 2017. The Moon is amid some high cirrus cloud, adding the coloured glow around the Moon. This is an HDR stack of 7 exposures from 1/200th to 0.3 seconds to accomodate the large range in brightness of the scene. The star itself comes from the single longest exposure. The HDR exposures were merged and blended with Photomatix Pro 6 with Contrast Optimizer. Taken with the Astro-Physics 130mm apo refractor at f/6 and the Canon 60Da.
