Amazing Sky by Alan Dyer

This is the Milky Way core and a bonus meteor over the peaks and valleys at Saskatchewan River Crossing, in Banff National Park, Alberta. At left is the sharp peak of Mount Chephren and the Mistaya Valley. At right is the Howse Pass route over the Continental Divide. Below is the North Saskatchewan River flowing out of the Rockies. In the sky are the galactic core and starclouds in Scutum and Sagittarius toward the centre of our Milky Way Galaxy.

The rich collection of nebulas and star clusters toward the core show up well, including the Lagoon Nebula (most prominent), the Messier 24 starcloud above, flanked by the M23 and M25 star clusters, and the M17 (Swan) and M16 (Eagle) nebulas above it. At top is the Scutum Starcloud wirh the Messier 11 star cluster.

The constellation of Capricornus is just contained within the frame at left.

At centre is a well-placed random meteor that just happened to appear during the shooting of one of the sky frames. The meteor displays the usual green to red colour transition as it descends into the atmosphere, from the high-temperature ionization of oxygen and nitrogen molecules. Another bonus of sorts are the bands of green airglow, another form of atmospheric glow, caused by chemical fluorescence.

So this is a busy sky filled with sky phenomena both near and far.

Technical:
This is a blend of tracked (for the sky) and untracked (for the ground) exposures:
- A single untracked 2-minute exposure for the ground, with Long Exposure Noise Reduction on.
- A stack of 4 x 1 -minute tracked exposures for the sky, with LENR off
+ A single 1-minute exposure with the meteor was blended and masked in to contribute just the meteor. But it's in the place in the sky where it actually appeared.
All were wide open at f/2 with the RF28-70mm lens at 28mm on the stock Canon R5 at ISO 800. On the MSM Nomad star tracker. Taken from the Howse Pass Viewpoint just as the Moon was setting so the sky was fairly dark. Adobe DeNoise AI applied to the