A 200° wide panorama of the famous scene on the Bow Valley Parkway in Banff of Morant’s Curve on the CPR rail line, a photogenic spot for train spotting made famous by CPR photographer Nicholas Morant. The Bow River makes a sweeping bend here, near Mt. Temple at centre and Lake Louise. Here, the Milky Way sweeps down to the south at left, with the star clouds of Sagittarius and Scorpius at the end of the river. Mars is the bright object at left, with Saturn to the left of Mars, and bright Antares below Saturn. Jupiter is the bright object setting in the northwest at far right. Arcturus is the bright star at top. Summer twilight lights the sky deep blue with some green airglow and perhaps dim reddish aurora at right. While it would have been lovely to have also had a train in the picture, as it entered the scene from other direction its headlights are so bright they flooded the scene with light (that’s what they are supposed do!) and would have made any photo a glare-filled mess! And taking a multi-segment pan with a train moving through the segments would not have produced anything more than a blur moving along the rail line. I shot this June 4, 2016. This is a stitch of 20 segments in 4 tiers of 5 panels each, with the 24mm lens at f/2.5 and Nikon D750 at ISO 5000, each for 20 seconds. Stitched with PTGui. And shot with the iOptron iPano motorized panning unit.
The arch of the northern summer Milky Way across the Alberta prairie sky on a spring night, with the glow of aurora to the north at left. At right are Saturn and Antares in Scorpius low in the south, and bright Jupiter at far right, with Spica to the left of Jupiter and Arcturus above at top right. The Summer Triangle stars are at centre straddling the Milky Way. Shot from home with the Rokinon 14mm SP lens at f/2.5 and Canon 6D at ISO 6400 for a stitch of 9 exposures, each 30 seconds. Stitched with PTGui. This was about 1 am May 16, just before local moonrise.
An 8-section panorama of the summer Milky Way over a harvested canole field next to my house in rural Alberta. Taken with the 14mm lens, vertically, each segment at 45° spacings, for 60 seconds at f/2.8 and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 5000. Stitched in PTGui with Spherical projection.
