A 360° panorama of the winter sky over Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, on February 28, 2017. The Milky Way arches across the sky from south (left) to northeast (right). The Zodiacal Light stretches up from the western horizon at centre. The Gegenschein is faintly visible above the horizon at far left in Leo. Orion is left of centre; the Pleiades sit at the tip of the Zodiacal Light pyramid of light. The ground is lit only by starlight. No artificial illumination or light painting applied. This is a stitch of 6 segments taken with the 12mm full-fame fish-eye Rokinon lens at f/2.8, all 30-second exposures with the Nikon D750 at ISO 6400. The camera was aimed portrait with the segments at 60° spacings. Stitched with PTGui using equirectangular projection with the zeith pulled down slightly.
The stars of the northern winter sky rising at dawn on the morning of August 14, 2020, from home in southern Alberta. The waning crescent Moon is overexposed here, shining above bright Venus , then in southern Gemini as a bright “morning star” in the east. Mars is also bright and reddish, to the south at far right. Orion is rising over the ripening wheatfield at centre. Above Orion is Taurus with the Hyades and Pleiades star clusters. The bright star to the left and above the Moon is Capella in Auriga. Castor and Pollux are rising at left. A flaring satellite trail appears below Venus. This is a two-segment panorama with the 14mm Sigma Art lens at f/2.5 and Nikon D750 at ISO 800 for 20 seconds each. Stitched with PTGui which erases all the metadata from the image. I added a mild Orton Glow effect with Luminar Flex.
A 360° panorama of the evening twilight sky in winter, on February 28, 2017. The Milky Way is beginning to appear and the Zodiacal Light is at centre in the west. Clouds lit by light pollution colour the sky. The crescent Moon, here overexposed, shines below bright Venus, with Mars much fainter to the left of Venus. Orion stands to the south at left of centre, partly in clouds. Numerous satellite trails appear in the blue twilight sky. Leo is rising at far left; the Big Dipper is at far right. This is a stitch of 10 segments, each 25 seconds at f/2.8 with the 20mm Sigma Art lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 3200. Stitched with PTGui. Camera Raw did the job but did not allow for positioning the scene to put what I wanted at the centre. The original is 26,000 x 4,300 pixels. Taken from the Trail of the Fossil Hunters.
