Star Trail and Aurora Photography

Photography with Camera on Tripod



2022 Harvest Moon	Orion Nebula with Nikon Z6ii






Orion ultra widefield 24mm	Orion medium wide 85mm	Orion deep 180mm

Lunar Halo in Winter	Lunar Halo - Early Morning in Late Summer	Full Moon at Perigee: March 20th 2011 (full colour)	Full Moon at Perigee: March 20th 2011 (no colour)

Orion Rising in the East near Dawn Sept 11 2010	Orion, The Hyades and The Pleiades Rise Before Dawn Sept 11 2010	Crescent Moon w Venus	Crescent Moon w Venus (top) and Jupiter (left)

June 22 2003: Supra 400 and 24mm f2.8 Nikkor at f8.0 for 4 hours - meteors or fireflies? You be the judge! Note the faint background aurora.	Sept 13, 2004: Supra 400 and 24mm f2.8 Nikkor at f/8 for 5 hours - some aurora too	July 2005, my Supra is running low and getting old. This was a shorter exposure and only a hint of aurora.


I have been fortunate to see some really amazing aurora in the last cycle. My three favourites from Sept 7, 2002 are here:


The two pics below are from the Oct 30, 2003 display(s). Given the warnings, lots of astrophotographers got great pics - here are my best. These were taken with a 24mm f2.8 Nikkor at f2.8 and all for 30 seconds on Supra 400 print film.		This was a quick pic of Pillars of Light that appeared in the West March 12 2005. No moon but clouds over the nearby village caused some light pollution.


Here are some more pics from the Oct 30, 2003 display(s). The ones in this row were taken with a 16mm f2.8 Zenitar fisheye at f2.8 and all for 40 seconds on Supra 400 print film.		Below is the planetary alignment on Canada Day 2007: Venus and Saturn

Superb Auroral Display Nov 7th and 8th 2004!


This first set were all from 4am to 5am on Nov 8th 2004. I got up to see if the skies had cleared and they had! The aurora had also intensified.




The three pics below were from the the previous evening (Nov 7th, 2004). I was mostly clouded out but did manage to capture some of the display.


This shot below and the two on the right were taken Sept 10th 2005 during a surprisingly strong aurora display.

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