Circumpolar Star Trails -- Pentax 6x7 camera with 35mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/5.6. Fujichrome 100F slide film and 2 hour exposure. Taken from home in July 2004. Aurora adds sky color.
A 360° degree fish-eye panorama of the Milky Way with the Galactic Centre overhead and the spiral arms of the Galaxy symmetrically displayed to either side of the core: toward Scutum, Aquila, and Cygnus at left; and toward Norma, Centaurus, and Carina at right. This is from near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia at at latitude of 32° South. Scorpius and Antares are overhead at the zenith. The Dark Emu is visible across the sky, from his head in Crux at right, to his tail in Scutum at left. Jupiter is the bright object in the west at top. The glow of Gegenschein is below it. The view is with southeast to the bottom to place the plane of the Galaxy horizontally across the frame. Some airglow discolours the sky at left. This is a stitch of 8 segments, each a 1-minute exposure with the 14mm lens at f/2.6 and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 3200. The camera was on a tracker, the iOptron Sky-Tracker, so the stars are not trailed. Stitched with PTGui.
A 360° panorama of Bow Lake in Banff National Park, Alberta on a very dark and clear night, July 17, 2018. The Milky Way toward the galactic core lies above Bow Glacier at right. Saturn is reflected in the still waters. The Big Dipper is at far right low in the north. Bands of green airglow colour the sky to the south at centre. A magenta and green glow to the north at either end is from aurora. A STEVE isolated arc aurora appeared earlier in this night. I shot this about 2:45 am July 17, 2018, shooting three tiers of 7 segments each, with the 20mm Sigma Art lens at f/2 and Nikon D750 at ISO 6400 for 30 seconds for each segment. I used the Syrp Genie Mini for the automatic camera positioning in azimuth. I stitched the panorama with PTGui.
