The night sky is filled with countless stars, galaxies, and nebulae. However, even from the darkest skies on Earth, the majority remain invisible to the naked eye. Thankfully, astrophotography can reveal what the eye cannot. But what does it take to do it from the city, where light pollution severely limits our view? This is a question I have tackled over many years, and I’m happy to share this “deepscape” image from the city, of the Orion Molecular Cloud Cloud Complex over Vancouver’s “English Bay”. When a last-minute forecast on March 15th 2021 predicted clear skies, I scoured online maps in the two hours remaining before dark, searching for an interesting spot to photograph Orion. Upon checking the live position of ships in the harbour, I decided that Stanley Park (the site of X̱wáýx̱way, a Squamish village for over 3000 years before the arrival of European settlers) would be the place to be. The problem? Stanley Park is located right next to downtown Vancouver, a heavily light polluted area (Bortle 8). To pull off the shot, I would have to employ long exposures, optical filters, and stacking. I utilized a 100mm lens on a modified Canon 6D, which records wavelengths near-invisible to a normal camera, along with a star tracker, to take very long exposures. I began with an hour of visible light images, followed by an hour of “narrowband” images, selectively targeting the 656nm wavelength emitted by nebulae (which cuts out light pollution). Finally, I switched off my tracker, to capture the foreground scene with which the stars were aligned. I combined, stacked, and stretched the images in post-processing, to reveal details of the night sky invisible to the naked eye.