A 360° panorama of the Milky Way and night sky taken at the Maskinonge Lake viewpoint in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada. I shot this Sept 21, 2014 on a very clear night with a faint aurora appearing to the north (top) and some airglow to the east and west. The ground is lit solely by starlight. The lights are from the Park entrance gates. The Big Dipper is at top (north). Taurus and the Pleiades are rising at left (east). Sagittarius is setting at lower right (southwest). The faint glow of Gegenschein is visible to the southeast at lower left. This is a stitch of 8 segments, each shot with the 15mm full-frame fisheye lens, for 1 minute at f/2.8 and with the Canon 6D at ISO 5000. I used PTGui to stitch the segments, with this version being a spherical fish-eye projection.
A 360° panorama of the Milky Way and night sky taken at Cameron Lake in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada. I shot this Sept 21, 2014 on a very clear night with no noticeable aurora and very little airglow. The ground is lit solely by starlight. The lake was very calm and reflects the southern Milky Way. This is a stitch of 8 segments, each shot with the 15mm full-frame fisheye lens, for 1 minute at f/2.8 and with the Canon 6D at ISO 4000. I used PTGui to stitch the segments, with this version being an equirectangular projection.
The arch of the northern spring Milky Way across the eastern sky, as seen on a beautifully clear and mild spring night at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta on May 14, 2018. The galactic centre in Sagittarius is at right to the south. Jupiter is the bright object in the southwest at far right; above it Arcturus. The Summer Triangle stars are rising in the east at centre, including bright blue-white Vega at top centre. The Big Dipper is at far left. Due north and the North Star are at left toward the faint yellow-green and magenta glow of aurora on the horizon. Little of the aurora was visible to the eye. Bands of green and red airglow colour the sky at centre and at right to the south. The distinct and sharp-edged band of airglow was present all through the shooting session. This is a stitch of 21 segments, in 3 tiers of 7 each, taken with the Syrp Genie Mini controller in panorama mode, but with the camera manually raised from 0° to 30° to 60° altitude for each of the three tiers. The Mini did the azimuth panning and shutter control automatically. All exposures were 30 seconds at f/2.8 with the Sigma 20mm Art lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 6400. Stitching was with PTGui which did the job fast and seamlessly.
