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Galaxy and glacier! The Milky Way over glacier-fed Lake Louise and Victoria Glacier in Banff National Park, Alberta. The Scutum Starcloud is just above and setting over Victoria Glacier, accompanied by star clusters in Serpens and Ophiuchus. Some airglow tints the sky above the mountains green and magenta.

I shot this on a fine night on October 17, 2022 from the usual lakeshore promenade. Planning the timing of the shot was done with The Photographer's Ephemeris (TPE) and TPE3D.

While an iconic picture-postcard scene by day, it is a challenge to shoot at night as lights from the Chateau Lake Louise behind the camera illuminate the foreground and the distant wooded mountainsides.

This is a blend of two sets of exposures:
- a stack of two untracked 2-minute exposures for the ground at ISO 800
- a stack of four tracked 1-minute exposures for the sky at ISO 1600

All with the Canon RF15-35mm lens at f/2.8 and 20mm and Canon R5, and with the camera and tripod not moving between image sets, and on the Star Adventurer Mini tracker. The reflected stars are trailed as they come from the untracked ground shots. Tracking reflected stars is very tough as it requires re-aligning the tracker to turn around the reflected celestial pole, in my case 51° below the horizon, not very practical.

Panoramas stitched in Adobe Camera Raw and blended and masked in Photoshop. A mild Orton glow effect added to the sky with Luminar Neo and a ground enhancement effect added with Radiant Photo plug-in.
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Galaxy and glacier! The Milky Way over glacier-fed Lake Louise and Victoria Glacier in Banff National Park, Alberta. The Scutum Starcloud is just above and setting over Victoria Glacier, accompanied by star clusters in Serpens and Ophiuchus. Some airglow tints the sky above the mountains green and magenta. <br /> <br /> I shot this on a fine night on October 17, 2022 from the usual lakeshore promenade. Planning the timing of the shot was done with The Photographer's Ephemeris (TPE) and TPE3D. <br /> <br /> While an iconic picture-postcard scene by day, it is a challenge to shoot at night as lights from the Chateau Lake Louise behind the camera illuminate the foreground and the distant wooded mountainsides. <br /> <br /> This is a blend of two sets of exposures: <br /> - a stack of two untracked 2-minute exposures for the ground at ISO 800<br /> - a stack of four tracked 1-minute exposures for the sky at ISO 1600 <br /> <br /> All with the Canon RF15-35mm lens at f/2.8 and 20mm and Canon R5, and with the camera and tripod not moving between image sets, and on the Star Adventurer Mini tracker. The reflected stars are trailed as they come from the untracked ground shots. Tracking reflected stars is very tough as it requires re-aligning the tracker to turn around the reflected celestial pole, in my case 51° below the horizon, not very practical. <br /> <br /> Panoramas stitched in Adobe Camera Raw and blended and masked in Photoshop. A mild Orton glow effect added to the sky with Luminar Neo and a ground enhancement effect added with Radiant Photo plug-in.