The northern winter constellations setting in the west and the Zodiacal Light in the western evening sky, shot from Chiricahua National Monument, at Massai Point, 6800 feet, in southeastern Arizona, April 29, 2014. Orion is setting at left of centre, and Sirius is at the left edge. The Pleiades are just going down behind the ridge at right, while Aldebaran and the Hyades sit amid the spring evening Zodiacal Light. I shot this as part of a 300-frame day-to-night time-lapse sequence using the Canon 6D and 24mm lens. This is a 30-second exposure at f/4 and ISO 3200.
Venus shining in the pre-dawn sky amid the morning zodiacal light below the Milky Way, then overhead. I took this at about 5 am local time from near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, on April 6, 2014. This is a stack of 5 x 3 minute exposures, tracked, with the Rokinon 14mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 5D Mark II at ISO 1600.
The morning zodiacal light in December 2013 from the Painted Pony Resort, New Mexico, looking east at 5:00 am December 6, 2013. Taken with the 14mm Rokinon lens at f/2.8 and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600 for a stack of 5 x 2m15s exposures, tracked on the iOptron SkyTracker. Mars is above centre and Saturn is just rising over the mountain ridge. Comet Lovejoy C/2013 R1 is at far left. The image includes the position (left of centre, above the mountains left of the Zodiacal Light) where Comet ISON (C/2012 S2) would have been had it survived passage around the Sun.
