August was a good month for sky shooting.  We had a couple of nights when the sky was clear enuogh for shooting the aurora borealis or nothern lights as the sun is at high activity at the moment.  These are all shot from my back deck, which is not an ideal location with city lights and power/communication lines.  On the other hand, as you get older, it is a lot harder to drive to a better location and wait and see if the aurora develops, especially with the uncertain weather in BC northwest.

The early morning was partly cloudy, so that you can see the clouds moving from the south in the left of the images.

Sony  Alpha 6000, Laowa 15mm macro lens, manual settings,  f4,  ISO 8000, 1 second. That caught both the aurora and the stars including Ursa major, aka The Big Dipper or the Plough and many other names.

I wanted to shoot the rise and set of the August supermoon/blue moon, also known as the Sturgeon moon and Corn moon.  Unfortunately in the northwest it was overcast on the night of the actual full moon on August 19.  The August 17 moon was 91.6% waxing gibbous and August 16, 84.4% waxing gibbous.

(These shots are not as clear as the ones for August 28, I was experimenting with the camera to find the right settings for my camera and the Kitimat sky, which were slightly different from the recommended settings found in online guides).