A 360° panorama and more than 100° from the ground to the zenith, taken at the Riverwalk picnic area in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, August 25, 2014. Sagittarius is behind the tipi, where the Milky Way is setting, while Perseus, Auriga and the Pleiades are at right where the Milky Way is rising. The green bands are from airglow not aurora. The Big Dipper is down the end of the road. A meteor streaks down at top left. I used the 14mm Rokinon lens in portrait mode for a set of 8 segments, each 60 seconds at ISO 4000 and f/2.8 wih the Canon 6D. The tipi is a modern store-bought tipi not an authentic family-owned First Nations tipi.
Reesor Ranch 360° night sky panorama, taken July 16, 2013 with the Moon still up and lighting up the sky but behind the trees and about to set. This is an 8-segment panorama taken with the 8mm fish-eye, at 45° spacing, and each segment 80 seconds at f/3.5 and the Canon 5D MkII at ISO 3200. North is just left of centre. Two cameras are at left shooting time-lapses.
A 360° panorama taken in the pre-dawn hours (4:45 a.m.) on December 8, 2013, from the Painted Pony Resort in SW New Mexico. The panorama takes in, from left to right: • Arcturus just on the treetop • the zodiacal light rising up from the east • red Mars embedded in the zodiacal light below Leo • the Milky Way from Puppis and Canis Major at left arching up and across the sky down into Perseus at right • Sirius the brightest star • Orion setting over the main house • Jupiter, the bright object at top centre in Gemini • Aldebaran and the Pleiades setting right of the main house in Taurus • Polaris over the smaller house at right • the Big Dipper pointing to Polaris at upper right • a green glow along the northern horizon above the smaller house that may be some aurora (there was a good display this night from northern latitudes) or may be intense airglow. • green and red bands throughout the sky are airglow • bands of high cloud also permeate the sky adding natural glows around the stars. This is a panorama created in PTGui software from 6 segments, all tracked, taken with the 14mm Rokinon lens at f/2.8 for 2.5 minutes each and with the Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600. PTGui does not preserve EXIF data.
