Total Eclipse of the Moon , November 8, 2003, shot from home in Alberta. Initial partial phase with moon rising in eclipse. Shows Earth's shadow on Moon and in the atmosphere as the blue band along horizon. Belt of Venus pink band above is sunlight hitting upper layers of atmosphere. Shot with fixed camera, 165mm lens on Pentax 6x7 camera, 120-format Ektachrome 100 slide film. Metered exposure. - Alan Dyer's "Amazing Sky" Photography at SmugMug

A collection of older film images on 35mm and 6x7 film, from pre-2004.

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Total eclipse from Llano National Park, northern Chile, Nov. 3, 1994. Morning sky.

Taken with Plaubel Makina 67 camera with Velvia 50 120-format slide film and 80mm fixed lens at f/2.8 at 1/8 sec exposure just after second contact so chromosphere adds red tint to corona. Lunar disk darkened in Photoshop to clean up irradiation and haze. Venus is at upper right of Sun.

Line of 5 planets in the western sky in May 2002: from bottom up, lower right to upper left is Venus Mars (above Venus) and Saturn (below Venus) close together, and Jupiter in Gemini. Mercury is visible above the horizon to the left of the cloud bank. Shot with 28mm lens.

Line of 4 planets in the western sky in May 2002: Venus is bright object, Mars is upper left, and Saturn below Venus, with Mercury lower and to the right. Shot with 105mm lens for close up.

Total Eclipse of the Moon , November 8, 2003, shot from home in Alberta. Initial partial phase with moon rising in eclipse. Shows Earth's shadow on Moon and in the atmosphere as the blue band along horizon. Belt of Venus pink band above is sunlight hitting upper layers of atmosphere.

Shot with fixed camera, 165mm lens on Pentax 6x7 camera, 120-format Ektachrome 100 slide film. Metered exposure.

Taken October 27, 2004, with Pentax 6x7 camera and 55mm lens. Stopped down to f/16 for first half and second half, and opened up to f/2.8 and 40 second for totality exposure in mid-eclipse. Unfortunately, some frost formed on the lens at the end of the exposure causing the flaring at the top. Rats!

March 30, 2001 Great Aurora, seen all over North America

Taken from home in southern Alberta, Canada
28mm Nikkor lens at f/2.8
Ektachrome E200 slide film
about 40s second exposure
looking southeast, moonlight lighting landscape
Arcturus in frame

Minimal color correction/enhancement.

Number in file name is frame number on roll in order taken thru the display. Numbers higher than 36 = frame on second roll taken that night (i.e. 39 = #3 on second roll)

March 30, 2001 Great Aurora, seen all over North America

Taken from home in southern Alberta, Canada
18mm Nikkor lens at f/2.8
Ektachrome E200 slide film
about 40s second exposure
looking west and straight up

#32 thru 35 taken in quick succession.

Castor and Pollux above house. Quarter Moon was low in west just behind house kept out of the field. Foreground brightened slightly.

Number in file name is frame number on roll in order taken thru the display. Numbers higher than 36 = frame on second roll taken that night (i.e. 39 = #3 on second roll)

April 17/18, 2001 aurora, taken from home in Alberta. looking south. Part of a series taken looking same direction as substorm hit and subsided, from Image #2 to #15, on Roll #1. (Roll #2 was second camera shooting Provia 100F with 28mm lens and 18mm lens.) All images in this series (#1-02 thru 15) processed in Photoshop with nearly identical enhancements to contrast and colour. Brightness toned down for longer overexposed shots (early ones).

This shot:
16mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/3.5
Ektachrome E200 slide film
Exposure 30 seconds
Colors and contrast punched up but not excessively.

Taken near the peak of substorm burst which started at midnight and lasted about 10 minutes. This aurora was the result of a major flare that let off on the Sun on Easter Sunday.

Big Dipper (cut off) at top, and zenith point below it, so vertical dimension takes in well over 90° sweep from horizon to well past zenith to north.

Total Eclipse of the Moon , November 8, 2003, shot from home in Alberta. Initial partial phase with moon rising in eclipse. Shows Earth's shadow on Moon and in the atmosphere as the blue band along horizon. Belt of Venus pink band above is sunlight hitting upper layers of atmosphere.

Shot with fixed camera, 165mm lens on Pentax 6x7 camera, 120-format Ektachrome 100 slide film. Metered exposure.