A 360° panorama and more than 100° from the ground to the zenith, taken at the Riverwalk picnic area in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, August 25, 2014. Sagittarius is behind the tipi, where the Milky Way is setting, while Perseus, Auriga and the Pleiades are at right where the Milky Way is rising. The green bands are from airglow not aurora. The Big Dipper is down the end of the road. A meteor streaks down at top left. I used the 14mm Rokinon lens in portrait mode for a set of 8 segments, each 60 seconds at ISO 4000 and f/2.8 wih the Canon 6D. The tipi is a modern store-bought tipi not an authentic family-owned First Nations tipi.
Reesor Ranch 360° night sky panorama, taken July 16, 2013 with the Moon still up and lighting up the sky but behind the trees and about to set. This is an 8-segment panorama taken with the 8mm fish-eye, at 45° spacing, and each segment 80 seconds at f/3.5 and the Canon 5D MkII at ISO 3200. North is just left of centre. Two cameras are at left shooting time-lapses.
A 360° panorama taken at the Rothney Astrophysical Observatory on August 30, 2014 at one of the annual Milky Way Nights, a public stargazing session which, this night, attracted about 400 people. The Observatory is just southwest of the city do the city lights illuminate the northern sky to the left behind the 16-inch Dome. The Milky Way arches overhead and to the south at right. People gather on the plaza to look through portable telescopes set up by members of the Calgary Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Blurred people also line up to go inside and look though the large observatory telescopes. Other people lie back on the lawn to gaze skyward. This is an 8-segment panorama with the 15mm full-frame fisheye lens at f/3.2 for 30 seconds each at ISO 1600. Stitched with PTGui.
