A fish-eye 360° image of the entire southern sky, taken from Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, December 13/14, 2012, using an 8mm Sigma fish-eye lens and Canon 5D MkII camera for a stack of 4 x 8 minute exposures at f/4 and ISO 800. The ground silhouette is from just one frame to minimize blurring of the horizon - all images were tracked. Orion and Jupiter are at left (west), Sirius, Canis Major, Puppis and Vela are near centre in the Milky Way, while Crux and Carina are rising at right (east). South is at top over the cottage, north at bottom over Timor Rock. The Magellanic Clouds are at top right over the cottage. The large Gum Nebula is at centre in Vela; Barnard's Loop on Orion is at left.
The southern sky Milky Way rising over Timor Cottage, Coonabarabran, Australia, December 2012. This is a single image with an untracked camera, the Canon 60Da at ISO 3200 and 10-22mm lens at f/4 for 90 seconds.
A nearly 360° panorama of the southern sky, midnight, in mid December 2012, from Timor Cottage, near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia. Taurus, the Pleiades, Jupiter and Orion are left of centre over Timor Rock, the Milky Way extends from there to the right down toward the cottage, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are right of centre over the cottage. Some green and red bands from airglow are visible to the south behind the cottage. This is an 8-section panorama taken with the Canon 60Da and 10-22mm lens at 10mm, at f/3.5 for 90s each at ISO 3200. Stitched with Photoshop CS6.
