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.
Northern Winter/Southern Summer sky from Taurus to Canis major including Orion and Sirius. Shot from NSW, Australia December 2003. Taken with Pentax 6x7 camera with 55mm lens at f/5.6 for 45 minute exposure on Ektachrome E200 slide film (120-format). Glow layer added in Photoshop to add glow around stars.
A 360° fish-eye panorama of the southern hemisphere autumn sky, on March 31, 2017, taken from Cape Conran on the Gippsland Coast of Victoria, Australia at a latitude of 37° South. Orion and Sirius are at top, oriented as we are used to seeing them in the northern sky in our winter season. Below Sirius is Canopus, and below it are the two Magellanic Clouds, Large and Small (LMC and SMC). At bottom along the southern Milky Way are the stars of Carina, Crux, and Centaurus, and the dark lanes of the Milky Way creating the “Dark Emu” rising out of the ocean. At far left is Jupiter. Some faint red airglow tints the sky. This is at stitch of 7 segments, each shot with the 14mm Rokinon lens, in portrait orientation, at f/2.5 for 45 seconds each, at ISO 3200 with the Canon 6D. Stitched with PTGui with spherical fish-eye projection.
