A 360° nightscape panorama of the Milky Way from Carina (at right) to Scutum (at left) arching over the paddock next to the Tibuc Gardens Cottage near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, on April 12, 2016. The Dark Emu is visible in its entirety, from the head in Crux at right to his feet in Scutum at left. Scorpius with Mars and Saturn are at top left. Some green airglow tints the horizon. The ground is illuminated only by starlight. This is a stitch of 8 panels, each 2.5-minute exposures, all tracked on the iOptron Sky Tracker, with the 15mm full-frame fish eye lens (in portrait orientation) at f/2.8 and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 3200. The sky is not trailed but the tracking has blurred the ground slightly. Stitched in PTGui software. The original is 13,800 x 3,800 pixels.
A 360° panorama and from horizon to zenith of the southern sky and Milky Way from Smoky Cape and the grounds of the Lighthouse and Cottages. The Dark Emu in Crux and Centaurus is rising at left, while Canis Major and Sirius are setting right of center. The Magellanic Clouds are left of centre. The evening Zodiacal Light is visible arching up from the west at right, with Jupiter the bright object in the Zodiacal Band at right. The Lighthouse itself is just behind the trees on the hill at left and is ouf of sight though its beams are lighting the sky above the trees. Other sky colouration comes from light pollution and from airglow. I like the way the arch of the Milky Way mirrors the arch in the trees on the hillside sweeping down to the beach. I stayed for four nights in the cottage at right, and the dark window in the room at right was mine. The panorama is a stitch of 9 segments, each shot with the 15mm full-frame fish-eye lens in portrait orientation, and at f/2.8 with the Canon 6D at ISO 3200. All exposures 1 minute, untracked on a tripod. Stitched in PTGui using equirectangular projection.
A 360° panorama of the Milky Way and night sky taken at Red Rock Canyon 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. 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 6400. I used PTGui to stitch the segments, with this version being a spherical fish-eye projection.
