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Here are four views of the close conjunction of the waxing crescent Moon above Venus on May 18, in a superb evening sky with Jupiter and the last of the winter stars setting.

The conjunction is reflected in the waters of Crawling Valley Lake in southern Alberta near Bassano. Included is a panorama sweeping from west to north.

Details are in the individual photo descriptions.

Here's short music video of the aurora of May 15/16, 2026, from home in Alberta. It was notable for the blue tinted tops to the curtains and the appearance of blue rays during the display, captured in the time-lapse which compresses 2 hours of the aurora into 2 minutes.

The details are in the description on YouTube.

Enjoy!

Blue Aurora in Twilight This 2-minute video captures 2 hours of the aurora of May 15/16, 2026, from home in southern Alberta. At this time of year and at this latitude (51º N) the t...

Here is a better capture (sharper and a longer exposure) from last night (April 30) of the supernova in the galaxy NGC 5907.

Details —
This is the edge-on galaxy NGC 5907 in Draco, aka the Splinter Galaxy, caught with a supernova explosion underway. This is Supernova SN2026kid, discovered on April 20, 2026 and imaged here on April 30 when it was 15th magnitude.

SN 2026kid is a Type II supernova — meaning a giant star exploding at the end of its life, perhaps turning into a neutron star or black hole.

The galaxy itself is magnitude 10.3 and is 53 million light years away. Only the supernova and galaxy are at that distance. All the other stars are likely foreground stars much closer within our galaxy and only a few thousand light years away.

However, the small 16th magnitude galaxy PGC 54419 is at upper right and is about 49 million light years away.

North is up in this orientation.

Technical:
This is a stack of 131 x 15-second exposures (so over 32.75 minutes) with the Pegasus SmartEye digital eyepiece with its 15mm-wide square IMX533 CMOS sensor but that presents a circular field of view in final stacked images like an eyepiece.

It was on the Askar APO120 telescope for 840mm focal length at f/7.