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Orion over Calgary (24mm D750).jpg
An urban nightscape of the constellations of Orion and Canis Major over the skyline of Calgary on January 18, 2018, on a very clear and moonless winter night, allowing stars to show up fairly well despite the light pollution. Sirius is above the Bow Tower building at left.
I shot this from Crescent Road on the north bank of the Bow River, with Orion nearly due south as high as it could get. So this is a real scene, not a faked composite with a sky shot someplace else or at some other time layered in.
However, the view was helped by the use of a NISI Natural Night light pollution filter on the lens which helped filter out the yellow emission lines from sodium vapour lights, and rendered the sky a more pleasing blue tint (this is not from moonlight).
The faintest stars are about magnitude 7.5, not bad from a city site, though this was a very clear, haze-free night, the sky factor.
In addition, the sky is a longer single exposure of 10 seconds at f/2.5 and ISO 400 (which brought out the stars more but overexposed the skyline), while the skyline is a stack of 4 x 3-second exposures at f/2.8 and ISO 400 (to better expose for the bright lights). This composited accommodated the huge range of brightness of the scene. something like an HDR blend.
I shot this with the 24mm Sigma Art lens and Nikon D750.
I added the star diffraction spikes for artistic effect using Astronomy Tools actions.
I shot this from Crescent Road on the north bank of the Bow River, with Orion nearly due south as high as it could get. So this is a real scene, not a faked composite with a sky shot someplace else or at some other time layered in.
However, the view was helped by the use of a NISI Natural Night light pollution filter on the lens which helped filter out the yellow emission lines from sodium vapour lights, and rendered the sky a more pleasing blue tint (this is not from moonlight).
The faintest stars are about magnitude 7.5, not bad from a city site, though this was a very clear, haze-free night, the sky factor.
In addition, the sky is a longer single exposure of 10 seconds at f/2.5 and ISO 400 (which brought out the stars more but overexposed the skyline), while the skyline is a stack of 4 x 3-second exposures at f/2.8 and ISO 400 (to better expose for the bright lights). This composited accommodated the huge range of brightness of the scene. something like an HDR blend.
I shot this with the 24mm Sigma Art lens and Nikon D750.
I added the star diffraction spikes for artistic effect using Astronomy Tools actions.
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- © 2018 Alan Dyer
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