Near Mayerthorpe, Alberta, astrophotographer Tim Kirby captured this colourful auroral display on August 31. The Pleiades star cluster is near the horizon, on the right side of the frame. He used a Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR camera with a 28mm lens at f/4 for a 25-second exposure at ISO 2500.
Bill Batchelor won Photo of the Week for the period of Jan. 7-13, 2023.
Steve Leonard won Photo of the Week for the period of Dec. 31, 2022 to Jan. 6, 2023.
Oleg Bouevitch won Photo of the Week for Dec. 24-30, 2022, and Kimberly Sibbald’s “Noctilucent Clouds with Aurora” received an honourable mention.
Abdur Anwar’s WR 134 wins Photo of the Week for Dec. 10-16, 2022, while Oscar Echeverri’s Embryo Nebula wins for the following week.
