Spring Sky (northern hemisphere) rising in east, late March 2004. Big Dipper and Arcturus visible above house and Leo with Jupiter in it at right. Pentax 6x7 camera with 120 format Fuji 100F slide film, 35mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/4.5,16 minute exposure, tracked so ground is trailed. Light from waxing crescent Moon in west provides blue sky light.
Spring Sky (northern hemisphere) rising in east, late March 2004. Big Dipper and Arcturus visible above house and Leo with Jupiter in it at right. Pentax 6x7 camera with 120 format Fuji 100F slide film, 35mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/4.5,16 minute exposure, tracked so ground is trailed. Moonlight from waxing crescent Moon in west provided blue sky light.
A 360° panorama of the spring sky over the Badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, on March 29, 2019, with the winter Milky Way and constellations such as Orion setting at bottom, and the spring constellations such as Leo filling the sky at top. At bottom is also the tapering pyramid-shaped glow of the Zodiacal Light, which continues across the sky as the Zodiacal Band and brightening at top just above the horizon as the Gegenschein. Urban sky glows from Brooks and Calgary mar the horizon with white and yellow glows. Mars is just below the Pleiades at bottom in the Zodiacal Light. This is a panorama of 12 segments taken with the 14mm Sigma Art lens and Nikon D750 in portrait orientation, all for 30 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 4000. Taken at 30° spacings. Stitched with PTGui. I added a mild Orton glow effect with Luminar 3 plugin.
