Orion to Canis Major and Sirius, shot from NSW, Australia, December 2003. Shot with 90mm lens at f/3.5 for 24 minutes on 120-format Ektachrome E200 slide film with Pentax 6x7 camera. Glow added in Photoshop.
A 360° fish-eye panorama of the winter sky in mid-February, shot from home in southern Alberta. This version adds labels. Orion is to the south at bottom, with the winter Milky Way arcing across the sky from southeast, at bottom, to northwest, at top. A faint glow of Zodiacal Light extends across the sky from west (right) to east (left). Urban sky glow lights the sky to the west. To the north at top, an auroral arc extends along the horizon. The Big Dipper is at upper left in the northeast. Polaris is at top centre. Venus is bright and setting low in the west at right. Leo is rising in the east at left. This is a stitch of 6 segments, each shot with the Rokinon 12mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/2.8, for 30 seconds each at ISO 6400 with the Nikon D750. Stitched with PTGui.
A 360° panorama of the entire sky on a northern autumn night in November 2019. The Milky Way runs across the sky from east (left) to west (right), with south at bottom and due north at top. The Summer Triangle stars are setting in the west at right while Orion and the winter stars are rising in the east at left. Overhead at centre are the traditional autumn constellations of Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Perseus, Andromeda and Pegasus, among others. The Andromeda Galaxy is close to the zenith at centre. The Big Dipper is low on the northern horizon at top. Fomalhaut is the bright star between the trees low on the horizon in the southwest at right. The Pleiades and Taurus are left of centre. At top we are looking outward from the centre of the Galaxy, toward the edge of the Milky Way and toward the Perseus Arm, the next one out from ours. To the south at bottom are the faint “watery” constellations of Aquarius, Cetus, Pisces, and Eridanus. Bands of natural red airglow colour the sky, while horizon glows of blue and greenish white from LED urban lighting discolour the horizon. Snow covers the ground from a snowfall the day before. However, this is autumn! In Alberta! This is a stitch of 8 segments, each 30 seconds at f/3.2 with the Canon 15mm full-frame fish-eye lens on the Canon EOS Ra camera at ISO 3200. The camera was turned in portrait orientation and moved in 45° increments to take the 8 segments. Stitching was with PTGui.
