The winter constellations of the northern hemisphere sky, rising on a January night, from Canada, above a snowy prairie landscape. Sirius is just rising in the horizon glow. The scene extends up to Capella in Auriga near the zenith at top. Jupiter is the bright object above centre in Taurus.
Taken from home on January 6, 2013, with the modified Canon 5D Mark II at ISO 800 and 15mm Canon lens at f/2.8, for a stack of 3 x 4 minute exposures. The landscape is from just one frame, to avoid blurring of the horizon. Light polluted haze moving in from the right, west.
The Amazing Sky 