An overhead pass of the International Space Station in a bright moonlit sky on the night of May 31/ June 1, 2015, with the gibbous Moon in to the south, below. The view is looking south, with the ISS travelling from right (west) to left (east) over several minutes. This was the second pass of a 4-pass night, May 31/June 1, starting at 12:44 am MDT this morning. This is a composite stack of 91 exposures, each 4 seconds at f/3.5 with the 8mm fish-eye lens and ISO 6400 with the Canon 6D. The gaps are from the 1-second interval between exposures. The length of the trails and gaps reflects the changing apparent speed of the ISS as it approaches, passes closest, then flies away. The stars are trailing around Polaris at top. An aircraft supplies the other dashed trail across the top and intersecting with the ISS trail. I stacked the exposures with the Advanced Stacker Actions from StarCIrcleAcademy.com, using the Lighten mode. The ground comes from a Mean blend of just 8 of the exposures to prevent shadows from blurring but to smooth noise.
The waxing crescent Moon and Venus (above) over the old farm house at the Visitor Centre at the Old Man on His Back Prairie and Heritage Conservation Area in southwest Saskatchewan, May 20, 2015, on a very clear night. The old house was the original house lived in by the Butala family who settled the area in the 1920s. This is a single exposure taken as part of an 850-frame time-lapse sequence with the 14mm Rokinon lens and Canon 60Da camera.
The amazing detail along the lunar terminator on an 8-day-old Moon, taken April 26, 2015. The craters, mountain ranges, and wrinkle ridges in the luanr seas stand out in staark relief. This is a two-frame mosaic taken at the prime focus of a Celestron C9.25 telescope, using the Canon 60Da camera. I stitched the two segments using Adobe Camera Raw 9’s new Photomerge function in ACR, yielding a panoramic Raw file.
