A 360° fish-eye panorama of the southern hemisphere autumn sky, on March 31, 2017, taken from Cape Conran on the Gippsland Coast of Victoria, Australia at a latitude of 37° South. Orion and Sirius are at top, oriented as we are used to seeing them in the northern sky in our winter season. Below Sirius is Canopus, and below it are the two Magellanic Clouds, Large and Small (LMC and SMC). At bottom along the southern Milky Way are the stars of Carina, Crux, and Centaurus, and the dark lanes of the Milky Way creating the “Dark Emu” rising out of the ocean. At far left is Jupiter. Some faint red airglow tints the sky. This is at stitch of 7 segments, each shot with the 14mm Rokinon lens, in portrait orientation, at f/2.5 for 45 seconds each, at ISO 3200 with the Canon 6D. Stitched with PTGui with spherical fish-eye projection.
A 360° rectangular panorama of the southern hemisphere autumn sky, on March 31, 2017, taken from Cape Conran on the Gippsland Coast of Victoria, Australia at a latitude of 37° South. The Milky Way through Puppis and Vela was overhead at this time and so is spread out along the top of the frame using this map projection. The Milky Way at left is rising; the Milky Way at right is setting. The South Celestial Pole is left of centre near the satellite trail. Orion and Sirius are at right. Left of Sirius at centre is Canopus, and below it are the two Magellanic Clouds, Large and Small (LMC and SMC). At left along the southern Milky Way are the stars of Carina, Crux, and Centaurus, and the dark lanes of the Milky Way creating the “Dark Emu” rising out of the ocean. At far left is Jupiter. Some faint red airglow tints the sky. This is at stitch of 7 segments, each shot with the 14mm Rokinon lens, in portrait orientation, at f/2.5 for 45 seconds each, at ISO 3200 with the Canon 6D. Stitched with PTGui with equirectangular projection.
The blue glow of summer solstice twilight in the north (at left below the Big Dipper) and the Milky Way arching over Castle Mountain at right, on the Bow Valley Parkway, in Banff National Park, on a very clear moonless night June 4, 2016. The road seems to lead from the Big Dipper to the Milky Way. Despite this being shot after midnight, the sky to the north is still bright with twilight which lasts all night at this latitude near solstice. However, the Milky Way still stands out. In early June the Milky Way arches across the eastern sky and is not yet overhead as it is later in northern summer, making it easier to frame in a pan like this. The Big Dipper at upper left is distorted by the map projection used to create the pan, which stretches the sky across the top near the zenith to fill the rectangular frame, like Greenland being distorted in Mercator maps. Polaris is left of top centre - the Dipper bowl still points to it. This is a panorama stitched and cropped from 28 panels in 4 tiers of 7 panels each, shot with the iPano motorized panning unit. Each exposure was 20 seconds at f/2.5 with the Sigma 24mm Art lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 5000. Stitched with PTGui.
