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Joel Weatherly
Edmonton, Aberta, Canada
01/26/2020
01:15 am

Equipment Details:

Canon 5Ds, Sigma 20mm f/1.4 Art Lens, iOptron SkyTracker Pro

Post-processing Details:

Colour correction, an enhancement to contrast, and annotating performed in Affinity Photo. This submitted photo has been compressed by 90% as the original 8267 × 5511, 49.7MB version was too large for the submission form.

Image Details:

This image highlights some of my favourite (northern hemisphere) winter sights. I have been working on annotating some of my wide-field images to better familiarize myself with deep sky objects and navigating the night sky. I captured this image near a rural pond, roughly 40 kilometres southeast of Edmonton. Despite being kilometres away Edmonton, or even the nearest town, and just to the south of a local dark sky preserve, light pollution still permeated the skies. This was the first clear and relatively warm (-12 °C) night that we had in weeks.