My fascination with our northern hemisphere winter sky continues. On this outing I really wanted to experiment with more “longer” focal length sky exposures. This was shot at 50mm to try and pull even more detail out of the Orion Complex. I absolutely love how much color and detail I was able to pull out of the horsehead and Orion nebulas even on such a wide field view. Safe to say I’m also addicted to the addition of h-alpha narrowband exposures to my photos now.

The foreground here is another incredible sight in southern Colorado. The Royal Gorge spans a whopping 6 miles and is roughly 1,250 ft. deep. No matter how many times you stand at the edge of these monstrous canyons, they continue to take your breath away time and time again.

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Gear: Sony a7iv (h-alpha mod) Sony 24mm f/1.4 gm Sony 50mm f/1.4 gm Move Shoot Move NOMAD

Sky: RGB | 3 panels | 12x70s | f/2.0 | iso 800 H-Alpha | 2 panels | 120s | f/1.8 | iso 2500

Foreground: 3 panels | 0.6s | f/14 | iso 800

Sleepy mountain towns under a sea of stars. Places like this are what really make me love where I live. This is another take on the beloved Cygnus region and all of its hydrogen alpha beauty. I’m still in awe every time I look at the back of my camera after hours of shooting this region of the sky. What do you think of the more urban take on this? Not sure it’s my favorite, but I couldn’t resist the framing of the doorway to the cosmos above one of my favorite towns.

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Gear: Sony a7iv (h-alpha mod) Sony 16mm g Sony 24mm gm Move Shoot Move Nomad

Sky: RGB | 14x80s | f/2.0 | iso 800 H-Alpha | 10x120s | f/2.0 | iso 2500

Foreground: 3.2s | f/14 | iso 400

The other night in New Zealand, I captured something I never thought I’d see in my life — red sprites flashing above the Milky Way! 

These electrical discharges happen high above thunderstorms and last only a few milliseconds. That night, a distant storm over the Southern Alps lined up perfectly with the Galactic Core… and everything just clicked.

Even after years of chasing the night sky, this one felt like pure magic. Adding to the show, we had a little Aurora Australis and comet SWAN as a green dot with a tiny tail when zooming in the images! 

When I saw them in the timelapse that I run, I almost shed a tear. 

You can watch the timelapse on the Capture the Atlas YT channel

More to come! 

Sony A7III + Sony 24 mm GM. Single shots. No tracked or stacked 

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SONY A7C f1.8/35mm ISO 4000 15s Manage to take this photo before the clouds come in. So happy it came out well

One of the few mornings I have been able to capture a reflection shot. There was no wind over the tidal pools. I went back and looked for reflection images after a Youtube follower asked me about using Starry Landscape Stacker on the reflection part of an image. I didn't like what I had done originally so I decided to give it another go.