A 360° panorama of the Saskatchewan Summer Star Party, August 4, 2016, at the Meadows Campground in Cypress Hills Inter-Provincial Park, south of Maple Creek, Saskatchewan. The Park is a Dark Sky Preserve and is home to the annual star party that attracts about 300 people and telescopes each summer. A aurora is at left to the north while the Milky Way arches overhead from northeast to southwest, with the galactic centre in Sagittarius at right. Saturn and Mars are setting to the right of the Milky Way in Scorpius. The Big Dipper is at far left. Some faint bands of airglow are in the south at right. The Andromeda Galaxy is just left of centre. This is a 21-panel (3 tiers of 7 segments each) panorama shot with the iOptron iPano and stitched with PTGui. Each segment was 30 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 6400.
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.
