A 200+ degree panorama of the arch of the winter Milky Way, from south (left) to northwest (ar right) with the Zodiacal Light to the west at centre. This was from Dinosaur Provincial Park in southern Alberta on February 28, 2017. A spell of warm weather left very little snow, so the landscape does not look like winter here. But the sky is! This is a stitch of 6 segments but warped with fish-eye projection so that only 3 or 4 segments are contributing to this image. Stitched with PTGui. Each segment was 30 seconds at f/2.8 with the Rokinon 12mm lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 6400. Nik Dfine and Topaz noise reduction applied, in addition to ACR.
A 360° panorama and more than 100° from the ground to the zenith, taken at the Two Trees hilltop viewpoint in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, August 25, 2014. Sagittarius is at right at the end of the road, where the Milky Way is setting, while Perseus, Auriga and the Pleiades are at left at the other end of the road where the Milky Way is rising. The green bands are from airglow but some aurora is to the north behind the bare tree. The lights are from the town of Val Marie and farmlights from out on the prairie outside the Park boundaries. The Big Dipper is between the two trees. I used the 14mm Rokinon lens in portrait mode for a set of 8 segments, each 80 seconds at ISO 3200 and f/2.8 wih the Canon 6D.
A 360° x 220° panorama of the southern night sky, showing the Milky Way all the way across the sky with the centre of the Galaxy directly overhead. The Dark Emu extends from the Coal Sack at left to the dark lanes in Scutum at right. Venus is rising at far right amid the zodical light and some cloud. Mars, at opposition, is just setting behind the trees at left of centre. I shot this at 4:30 a.m. April 11, 2014 from the Two Styx Cabins just outside the boundary of New England National Park, NSW, Australia. This is a stitched panorama composed of 6 segments, each taken with an 8mm fish-eye lens on the Canon 5D Mark II. Each segment is a 1-minute untracked exposure at f/3.5 and ISO 4000. So the stars are trailed and with this projection also distorted at the top edge (the zenith) and at the corners of the frame.
