December southern sky from Vela/Puppis area to Centaurus, framed diagonally. Taken from NSW, Australia December 2003, with Pentax 6x7 camera with 55mm wide-angle lens at f/4.5 with Ektachrome E200 slide film, 120-format, and 40 minute exposure. Some slight trailing. Anti-vignetting mask applied to reduce corner darkening. Glow layer added in Photoshop to fuzz stars.
Southern sky Milky Way as seen in December, taken from a site near Parkes, NSW, Australia. Taken Dec. 2003. Covers area from celestial equator at top (Orion's Belt) down to South Celestial Pole betweem Magellanic Clouds at right and Milky Way at left. Bottom of Milky way goes down to Centaurus with Alpha and Beta Centauri rising above house -- and Sirius at top of frame and Canopus at centre. Taken with 35mm full-frame fish-eye lens on Pentax 6x7 camera, at f/5.6 for 60 minute exposure, on Ektachrome E200 slide film, 120-format. Glow layer added in Photoshop to fuzz 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.
