Spring Sky (northern hemisphere) rising in east, late March 2004. Big Dipper and Arcturus visible above house and Leo with Jupiter in it at right. Pentax 6x7 camera with 120 format Fuji 100F slide film, 35mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/4.5,16 minute exposure, tracked so ground is trailed. Moonlight from waxing crescent Moon in west provided blue sky light. - Alan Dyer's "Amazing Sky" Photography at SmugMug

Images of the Big Dipper, sometimes with Little Dipper and the entire Ursa Major constellation, often in nightscape settings.

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Noctilucent clouds low on northern horizon, amid midnight twilight of summer solstice, June 28, 2011. Big Dipper and Polaris in upper half of frame. Taken with Canon 7D and 10-22mm Canon zoom lens at 11mm for 20 seconds at f/4 and ISO 1000.

Num-Ti-Jah Lodge at Bow Lake, Banff National Park, on August 20, 2011. This is a single exposure of 45 seconds at ISO 1600, with the Canon 7D and 10-22mm lens at 10mm and f/5. Light is from the last quarter Moon off frame. Big Dipper is over lodge at right.

Spring Sky panorama -- sky rising, facing east in early evening April, 2004. Jupiter is at upper right in Leo.

Shows Dipper pointing to Polaris and Little Dipper and down to Arcturus. Come Berenices cluster visible at upper right.

Taken with Pentax 6x7 camera with 35mm wide-angle fish-eye lens from hom April 10, 2004. Fujichrome 400F 120-format film (very fined grained for 400 speed film). 35 minute exposure at f/5. Tracked but not guided. Slight aurora adds purple yellow glow at lower left to NE horizon.

Glow layer added in Photoshop to fuzz stars.

Panorama of northern spring sky, taken from home at latitude of +51° N, April 10, 2004.

Taken with 35mm full-frame fish-eye lens on Pentax 6x7 camera, at f/5, Fujichrome 400F slide film, and 35 minute exposure.

Glow layer added to emphasize bright stars. Jupiter is brghtest object, in Leo at centre right. Meteor at upper left is a bonus.

Stars at top of frame are a bit sharper in this one, vs #3 pan but #3 taken later is better framed. #1 Pan was taken earlier and shows spring stuff rising in east -- #2 and #3 show stuff more due south.

Zodiacal band faintly visible from Jupiter down to Spica as blue band.

Spring Sky (northern hemisphere) rising in east, late March 2004. Big Dipper and Arcturus visible above house and Leo with Jupiter in it at right.

Pentax 6x7 camera with 120 format Fuji 100F slide film, 35mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/4.5,16 minute exposure, tracked so ground is trailed. Moonlight from waxing crescent Moon in west provided blue sky light.

Ursa Major with Big Dipper with Canon 5D MkII and 35mm Canon L-series lens at f/4 for stack of 4 x 4 minutes at ISO 800 and 4 x 4 minutes with Kenko Softon filter for star glows. Taken Jan 15, 2010.

Ursa Major and Big Dipper, April 2004.

Taken with 55mm lens at f/5 on Pentax 6x7 camera with Fujichrome 400F slide film, 120-format, and 25 minute exposure.

Glow layer added to fuzz bright stars.

Spring Sky (northern hemisphere) rising in east, late March 2004. Big Dipper and Arcturus visible above house and Leo with Jupiter in it at right.

Pentax 6x7 camera with 120 format Fuji 100F slide film, 35mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/4.5,16 minute exposure, tracked so ground is trailed. Moonlight from waxing crescent Moon in west provided blue sky light.