A 360° panorama of the Table Mountain Star Party, July 25, 2014, held at the Eden Valley Guest Ranch in northern Washington state. It shows the Milky Way arching overhead (zenith is at the centre), and bands of airglow streaming out of the east at left. Southwest is at the bottom where the bright centre of the Galaxy area meets the horizon. The Big Dipper is at the right of the frame. This is an 8-section panorama, with each section shot with a 14mm Rokinon lens in portrait format, at f/2.8 and Canon 5D Mark II at ISO 6400 for 45 seconds each, untracked. Assembled in PTGui using Stereographic Down projection.
A 360° panorama of the Table Mountain Star Party, July 25, 2014, held at the Eden Valley Guest Ranch in northern Washington state. It shows the Milky Way arching overhead (zenith is at the top), and bands of airglow streaming out of the east at centre. South is to the right of centre where the bright centre of the Galaxy area meets the horizon. The Big Dipper is at the left of the frame. This is an 8-section panorama, with each section shot with a 14mm Rokinon lens in portrait format, at f/2.8 and Canon 5D Mark II at ISO 6400 for 45 seconds each, untracked. Assembled in PTGui using Equirectangular projection.
Summer Milky Way (northern hemisphere) over Star party lights. milky Way from Scutum/Serpens to Cepheus (Sagittarius just setting). Taken at Saskatchewan Summer Star party, Saturday, August 23, 2003. Taken with 35mm full-frame fisheye lens at f/5.6 on Ektachrome E200 slide film for 1h15minutes. Taken on medium format 120 film with Pentax 6x7. Tracked but not guided. Streaks are stationary lights on scopes that trailed while camera tracked the moving sky. This is a single exposure not a composite or fake. Scanned at 8x Sampling and SuperFine mode. Glow layer aded to sky to add glow around stars. Slight Dec trailing vertically from inaccurate polar alignment and long exposure time.
