Zodiacal Light at dawn on September 24, 2009. Taken from home with a Canon 5D MkII and 15mm lens at f/4 and ISO 800 for 6 minutes, tracking the sky so the ground is blurred. Big Dipper to the left and Orion and winter sky to the right. Venus is low in the sky at left of centre. Taken from southern Alberta, Canada.
Zodiacal Light at dawn on September 24, 2009. Taken from home with a Canon 5D MkII and 15mm lens at f/4 and ISO 800 for 6 minutes, tracking the sky so the ground is blurred. Big Dipper to the left and Orion and winter sky to the right. Venus is just rising left of centre. This is a single exposure not a composite; Fill Light and Shadows/Highlights were used to bring out foreground detail.
Zodiacal light at dawn on Oct 14, 2007, with Venus and Saturn in Leo below Regulus. 15mm lens at f/2.8 with 20Da at ISO 400 for 4 minutes, tracked. Stack of 3 exposures, but ground from one exposure added on top to minimize streaking of ground. Leo rising in east.
