Nightscapes - Panoramas - 360° Fish-Eye
A 360° panorama of the entire sky on a northern autumn night in November 2019. The Milky Way runs across the sky from east (left) to west (right), with south at bottom and due north at top. The Summer Triangle stars are setting in the west at right while Orion and the winter stars are rising in the east at left. Overhead at centre are the traditional autumn constellations of Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Perseus, Andromeda and Pegasus, among others. The Andromeda Galaxy is close to the zenith at centre. The Big Dipper is low on the northern horizon at top. Fomalhaut is the bright star between the trees low on the horizon in the southwest at right. The Pleiades and Taurus are left of centre. At top we are looking outward from the centre of the Galaxy, toward the edge of the Milky Way and toward the Perseus Arm, the next one out from ours. To the south at bottom are the faint “watery” constellations of Aquarius, Cetus, Pisces, and Eridanus. Bands of natural red airglow colour the sky, while horizon glows of blue and greenish white from LED urban lighting discolour the horizon. Snow covers the ground from a snowfall the day before. However, this is autumn! In Alberta! This is a stitch of 8 segments, each 30 seconds at f/3.2 with the Canon 15mm full-frame fish-eye lens on the Canon EOS Ra camera at ISO 3200. The camera was turned in portrait orientation and moved in 45° increments to take the 8 segments. Stitching was with PTGui.
Panorama of the Northern Autumn Sky
This is a 360° x 120° panorama of the northern autumn sky and Milky Way, taken from home December 6, 2020 from my latitude of 51° North. The Milky Way is arching directly overhead at left, with the summer Milky Way in Cygnus setting in the west at far left, and the winter Milky Way and Orion rising in the east at centre. At left across the top is the segment of the Milky Way through Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Perseus and Auriga prominent in the autumn months. In that part of the Milky Way we are looking out toward the edge of our Galaxy, toward the outer Perseus arm, in the direction opposite the galactic core which is well below the horizon here. The South Galactic Pole area in Sculptor is low in the south just above the horizon at right. So we are looking down out the "bottom" of the plane of he galaxy here, at least for the part of the sky below, or south of, the Milky Way. A faint band of Zodiacal Light and Zodiacal Band can be seen extending up from the southwest at right and extending along the ecliptic through Mars and toward the Pleiades. The counterglow of the Gegenschein, at the point directly opposite the Sun is partly lost here in the Milky Way in Taurus. Along the Milky Way we see various red nebulas, regions of star formation, notably the North America Nebula (NGC 7000) at far left, and the California Nebula (NGC 1499) at right above the blue Pleiades star cluster. Along the Milky Way across the top are various IC-catalog nebulas in Cepheus and Cassiopeia. The Orion Nebula is just rising at right of centre. The bright red object almost due south at right is Mars. At top right, and almost directly overhead in the sky at this time, is the Andromeda Galaxy. Polaris is at left due north, with the Big Dipper low in the north at left. The sky is tinted with red and green bands of natural airglow, but some low clouds also reflect the artifical glows from towns and highway lights on the horizion. At left, the white glow along the western horizon is from the now-LED dominant light pollution from Strathmore and Calgary. This is a multi-segment and multi-tier panorama made from 31 (!) segments shot in 4 tiers from the zenith to the horizon, each segment with a 24mm Sigma Art lens at f/2 for 30 seconds each, untracked, and with the Canon EOS Ra at ISO 3200. I used a Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi "GoTo" mount to perform the automated shooting -- it moved from segment to segment and fired the camera shutter, taking about 16 minutes to take all the segments. The segments were stitched with PTGui, which did a masterful job but did produce a massive file for the final layered export, taking several hours to render it. But it worked! The original image is 28,800 by 8,400 pixels.
360° Panorama of the Northern Autumn Sky
This is a 360° "all-sky" or fish-eye panorama of the northern autumn sky and Milky Way, taken from home December 6, 2020 from my latitude of 51° North. The Milky Way is arching directly overhead, with the summer Milky Way in Cygnus setting in the west at right, and the winter Milky Way and Orion rising in the east at left. At centre overhead is the segment of the Milky Way through Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Perseus and Auriga prominent in the autumn months. In this direction we are looking out toward the edge of our Galaxy, toward the outer Perseus arm, in the direction opposite the galactic core which is well below the horizon here. The South Galactic Pole area in Sculptor is low in the south just above the horizon at bottom. So we are looking down out the "bottom" of the plane of he galaxy here, at least for the part of the sky below, or south of, the Milky Way. A faint band of Zodiacal Light and Zodiacal Band can be seen extending up from the southwest at lower right and extending along the ecliptic through Mars and toward the Pleiades. The counterglow of the Gegenschein, at the point directly opposite the Sun is partly lost here in the Milky Way in Taurus. Along the Milky Way we see various red nebulas, regions of star formation, notably the North America Nebula (NGC 7000) at right, and the California Nebula (NGC 1499) at left above the blue Pleiades star cluster. At centre are various IC-catalog nebulas in Cepheus and Cassiopeia. The Orion Nebula is just riising at left. The bright red object almost due south below centre is Mars. At centre almost directly overhead is the Andromeda Galaxy. Polaris is above centre due north, with the Big Dipper low in the north at top. The sky is tinted with red and green bands of natural airglow, but some low clouds also reflect the artifical glows from towns and highway lights on the horizion. At right, the white glow along the western horizon is from the now-LED dominant light pollution from Strathmore and Calgary. This is a multi-segment and multi-tier panorama made from 31 (!) segments shot in 4 tiers from the zenith to the horizon, each segment with a 24mm Sigma Art lens at f/2 for 30 seconds each, untracked, and with the Canon EOS Ra at ISO 3200. I used a Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi "GoTo" mount to perform the automated shooting -- it moved from segment to segment and fired the camera shutter, taking about 16 minutes to take all the segments. The segments were stitched with PTGui, which did a masterful job but did produce a massive 170 gigabyte file for the final layered export, taking several hours to render it. But it worked! The original image is 17,300 by 17,300 pixels.
Panorama of the Milky Way Overhead-B&W Naked Eye View
A 360° degree fish-eye panorama of the Milky Way with the Galactic Centre overhead and the spiral arms of the Galaxy symmetrically displayed to either side of the core: toward Scutum, Aquila, and Cygnus at left; and toward Norma, Centaurus, and Carina at right. This is from near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia at at latitude of 32° South. Scorpius and Antares are overhead at the zenith. The Dark Emu is visible across the sky, from his head in Crux at right, to his tail in Scutum at left. Jupiter is the bright object in the west at top. The glow of Gegenschein is below it. The view is with southeast to the bottom to place the plane of the Galaxy horizontally across the frame. Some airglow discolours the sky at left. This is a stitch of 8 segments, each a 1-minute exposure with the 14mm lens at f/2.6 and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 3200. The camera was on a tracker, the iOptron Sky-Tracker, so the stars are not trailed. Stitched with PTGui.
Panorama of the Milky Way Overhead-B&W Naked Eye View
A 360° degree fish-eye panorama of the Milky Way with the Galactic Centre overhead and the spiral arms of the Galaxy symmetrically displayed to either side of the core: toward Scutum, Aquila, and Cygnus at left; and toward Norma, Centaurus, and Carina at right. This is from near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia at at latitude of 32° South. Scorpius and Antares are overhead at the zenith. The Dark Emu is visible across the sky, from his head in Crux at right, to his tail in Scutum at left. Jupiter is the bright object in the west at top. The glow of Gegenschein is below it. The view is with southeast to the bottom to place the plane of the Galaxy horizontally across the frame. Some airglow discolours the sky at left. This is a stitch of 8 segments, each a 1-minute exposure with the 14mm lens at f/2.6 and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 3200. The camera was on a tracker, the iOptron Sky-Tracker, so the stars are not trailed. Stitched with PTGui.
Panorama of the Milky Way Overhead
A 360° degree fish-eye panorama of the Milky Way with the Galactic Centre overhead and the spiral arms of the Galaxy symmetrically displayed to either side of the core: toward Scutum, Aquila, and Cygnus at left; and toward Norma, Centaurus, and Carina at right. This is from near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia at at latitude of 32° South. Scorpius and Antares are overhead at the zenith. The Dark Emu is visible across the sky, from his head in Crux at right, to his tail in Scutum at left. Jupiter is the bright object in the west at top. The glow of Gegenschein is below it. The view is with southeast to the bottom to place the plane of the Galaxy horizontally across the frame. Some airglow discolours the sky at left. This is a stitch of 8 segments, each a 1-minute exposure with the 14mm lens at f/2.6 and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 3200. The camera was on a tracker, the iOptron Sky-Tracker, so the stars are not trailed. Stitched with PTGui.
A 360° fish-eye panorama of the winter sky in mid-February, shot from home in southern Alberta. Orion is to the south at bottom, with the winter Milky Way arcing across the sky from southeast, at bottom, to northwest, at top. A faint glow of Zodiacal Light extends across the sky from west (right) to east (left). Urban sky glow lights the sky to the west. To the north at top, an auroral arc extends along the horizon. The Big Dipper is at upper left in the northeast. Polaris is at top centre. Venus is bright and setting low in the west at right. Leo is rising in the east at left. This is a stitch of 6 segments, each shot with the Rokinon 12mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/2.8, for 30 seconds each at ISO 6400 with the Nikon D750. Stitched with PTGui.
Milky Way at Maskinonge, Waterton Lakes (Fish-eye)
A 360° panorama of the Milky Way and night sky taken at the Maskinonge Lake viewpoint in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada. I shot this Sept 21, 2014 on a very clear night with a faint aurora appearing to the north (top) and some airglow to the east and west. The ground is lit solely by starlight. The lights are from the Park entrance gates. The Big Dipper is at top (north). Taurus and the Pleiades are rising at left (east). Sagittarius is setting at lower right (southwest). The faint glow of Gegenschein is visible to the southeast at lower left. This is a stitch of 8 segments, each shot with the 15mm full-frame fisheye lens, for 1 minute at f/2.8 and with the Canon 6D at ISO 5000. I used PTGui to stitch the segments, with this version being a spherical fish-eye projection.
Autumn Milky Way Panorama at Red Rock Canyon - B&W Naked Eye View
This is the Milky Way of the autumn season in the Northern Hemisphere, on a late September night, from the very dark site of Red Rock Canyon, in Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada. The scene is a 360° panorama taking in the entire sky, taken about 11:00 pm. Illumination is solely by starlight. Being autumn, the larches and aspens are in autumn colours. Snow is on Mount Blakiston at left, while the sharp peak at right is Anderson Peak. The galactic centre is toward the southwest at bottom, though Sagittarius itself had set by the time I shot this panorama. The bright star cloud of Scutum is above the mountains. The Milky Way stretches up through Aquila, through the Summer Triangle stars, with the Cygnus starcloud below centre. At centre is the dark nebula known as the Funnel Nebula. Above it, and above centre, the Milky Way continues through Cepheus, Cassiopeia, and into Perseus. The stars of Auriga and Taurus are just rising in the northeast at top. The Andromeda Galaxy is the fuzzy spot at left of centre. The Pleiades are above the mountains at top left. The dark lanes along the Milky Way are obvious, and with differing densities and opacities. At left is the faint Zodiacal Band, and the brighter diffuse glow of the Gegenschein, in Pisces at this time of year. This glow is always at the point in the sky opposite the Sun, where cometary dust particles reflect sunlight directly back to Earth. To the right the sky is colored red by a dim aurora to the north, and by airglow. My other camera is in the scene, shooting a time-lapse of the Milky Way motion. This is a multi-tier panorama, consisting of 48 segments (!), in 4 tiers of 12 segments each, taken with the iPano motorized panning unit. Each exposure was 30 seconds at f/2 with the 24mm lens and Canon 6D at ISO 6400. Stitching was with PTGui, which did it flawlessly. The original image is 12,000 x 12,000 pixels.
Autumn Milky Way Panorama at Red Rock Canyon
This is the Milky Way of the autumn season in the Northern Hemisphere, on a late September night, from the very dark site of Red Rock Canyon, in Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada. The scene is a 360° panorama taking in the entire sky, taken about 11:00 pm. Illumination is solely by starlight. Being autumn, the larches and aspens are in autumn colours. Snow is on Mount Blakiston at left, while the sharp peak at right is Anderson Peak. The galactic centre is toward the southwest at bottom, though Sagittarius itself had set by the time I shot this panorama. The bright star cloud of Scutum is above the mountains. The Milky Way stretches up through Aquila, through the Summer Triangle stars, with the Cygnus starcloud below centre. At centre is the dark nebula known as the Funnel Nebula. Above it, and above centre, the Milky Way continues through Cepheus, Cassiopeia, and into Perseus. The stars of Auriga and Taurus are just rising in the northeast at top. The Andromeda Galaxy is the fuzzy spot at left of centre. The Pleiades are above the mountains at top left. The dark lanes along the Milky Way are obvious, and with differing densities and opacities. At left is the faint Zodiacal Band, and the brighter diffuse glow of the Gegenschein, in Pisces at this time of year. This glow is always at the point in the sky opposite the Sun, where cometary dust particles reflect sunlight directly back to Earth. To the right the sky is colored red by a dim aurora to the north, and by airglow. My other camera is in the scene, shooting a time-lapse of the Milky Way motion. This is a multi-tier panorama, consisting of 48 segments (!), in 4 tiers of 12 segments each, taken with the iPano motorized panning unit. Each exposure was 30 seconds at f/2 with the 24mm lens and Canon 6D at ISO 6400. Stitching was with PTGui, which did it flawlessly. The original image is 12,000 x 12,000 pixels.
Milky Way at the Bison Compound
A 360° panorama of the Milky Way and night sky taken at the south end of the Bison Compound in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada. I shot this Sept 21, 2014 on a very clear night with a faint aurora appearing to the northeast (left) and some airglow to the north (top) and south (bottom). The ground is lit solely by starlight. The Big Dipper is at top. South is at botton. The Milky Way runs from SW to NE. The faint glow of Gegenschein is visible low in the souith (bottom) at the end of the road, as a brightening in the fainter Zodiacal Band, lost amid the airglow. This is a stitch of 8 segments, each shot with the 15mm full-frame fisheye lens, for 1 minute at f/2.8 and with the Canon 6D at ISO 5000. I used PTGui to stitch the segments, with this version being a spherical fish-eye projection.
Milky Way from Cameron Bay (Fish-eye)
A 360° panorama of the Milky Way and night sky taken at the Cameron Bay picnic area on Upper Waterton Lake in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada. I shot this Sept 21, 2014 on a very clear night with a faint aurora appearing to the north (behind the trees). Streetlights illuminate the scene from behind the trees to the north. Taurus, Orion and the Pleiades are rising at left (east). At right of lower centre (south) is the faint glow of Gegenschein amid the Zodiacal Band across the dim area of the autumn sky. North is at top. The Andromeda Galaxy, M31, is at centre, at the zenith. This is a stitch of 8 segments, each shot with the 15mm full-frame fisheye lens, for 1 minute at f/2.8 and with the Canon 6D at ISO 5000. I used PTGui to stitch the segments, with this version being a spherical fish-eye projection.
Milky Way from Prince of Wales Hotel (Fish-eye)
A 360° panorama of the Milky Way and night sky taken at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada. I shot this Sept 21, 2014 on a very clear night with a faint aurora appearing to the north (behind the hotel). The panorama documents the extent of lighting in the area. The Hotel itself was closed and so was dark. Taurus and the Pleiades are rising at upper right. At upper left is the faint glow of Gegenschein amid the Zodiacal Band across the dim area of the autumn sky. North is at bottom. The Andromeda Galaxy is at centre (zenith). This is a stitch of 8 segments, each shot with the 15mm full-frame fisheye lens, for 1 minute at f/2.8 and with the Canon 6D at ISO 5000. I used PTGui to stitch the segments, with this version being a spherical fidh-eye projection.
Milky Way over Red Rock Canyon (Fish-eye)
A 360° panorama of the Milky Way and night sky taken at Red Rock Canyon in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada. I shot this Sept 21, 2014 on a very clear night with no noticeable aurora and very little airglow. The ground is lit solely by starlight. This is a stitch of 8 segments, each shot with the 15mm full-frame fisheye lens, for 1 minute at f/2.8 and with the Canon 6D at ISO 6400. I used PTGui to stitch the segments, with this version being a spherical fish-eye projection.
Panorama of the Southern Milky Way (Spherical)-B&W Naked Eye View
A 360° nightscape panorama of the Milky Way from Carina (at right) to Scutum (at left) arching over the paddock next to the Tibuc Gardens Cottage near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, on April 12, 2016. The Dark Emu is visible in its entirety, from the head in Crux at right to his feet in Scutum at left. Scorpius with Mars and Saturn are at top left. Some green and red airglow tints the horizon. The ground is illuminated only by starlight. This is a stitch of 8 panels, each 2.5-minute exposures, all tracked on the iOptron Sky Tracker, with the 15mm full-frame fish eye lens (in portrait orientation) at f/2.8 and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 3200. The sky is not trailed but the tracking has blurred the ground slightly. Stitched in PTGui software with spherical projection. The original is 12,000 x 8,000 pixels.
Panorama of the Southern Milky Way (Spherical)
A 360° nightscape panorama of the Milky Way from Carina (at right) to Scutum (at left) arching over the paddock next to the Tibuc Gardens Cottage near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, on April 12, 2016. The Dark Emu is visible in its entirety, from the head in Crux at right to his feet in Scutum at left. Scorpius with Mars and Saturn are at top left. Some green and red airglow tints the horizon. The ground is illuminated only by starlight. This is a stitch of 8 panels, each 2.5-minute exposures, all tracked on the iOptron Sky Tracker, with the 15mm full-frame fish eye lens (in portrait orientation) at f/2.8 and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 3200. The sky is not trailed but the tracking has blurred the ground slightly. Stitched in PTGui software with spherical projection. The original is 12,000 x 8,000 pixels.
Southern Sky Panorama #2 (Spherical)
A 360° panorama of the OzSky star party, April 4, 2016, at Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, showing the arch of the southern Milky Way, from Sagittarius rising at left, to Canis Major setting at right. At top, the bright object is Jupiter, here in thin cloud, with the diffuse glow of the Gegenschein at upper centre opposite the Sun. Some clouds are moving in from the west. South is above the trailer; east to the left side, west to the right side with Jupiter almost due north at its highest here. The Southern Cross is at its highest due south. The Dark Emu stretches from the Cross down into Sagittarius. The Large Magellanic Cloud is just above the tree at lower right. This is a stitch of 8 panels, each with the 14mm Rokinon lens at f/2.8 and mounted vertical in portrait orientation. Each exposure was 2.5 minutes at ISO 3200 with the Canon 5D MkII, with the camera tracking the sky on the iOptron Sky Tracker. Stitched with PTGui software with spherical projection.
A 360° panorama demonstrating the natural polarization of the sky in a band 90° away from the Sun. Here, the band stretches from top to bottom vertically across the sky, with the rising morning Sun in the east at left. The waning last quarter Moon is also 90° from the Sun at lower centre to the south. The Moon disk is enlarged 3x as per planetarium standards to make it more visible in the 360° sky. North is at the top. Taken from home July 16, 2017, using the 12mm Rokinon lens for a panorama of 8 segments, stitched with PTGui.
Southern Autumn Sky Panorama (Spherical)-B&W Naked Eye View
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.
Southern Autumn Sky Panorama (Spherical)
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.
Southern Autumn Sky Panorama (with Labels)
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.
Two Styx Night Sky Panorama (Fish-Eye 2014) - B&W Naked Eye View
A 360° x 220° fish-eye panorama of the southern night sky, showing the Milky Way all the way across the sky with the centre of the Galaxy directly overhead. The Dark Emu extends from the Coal Sack at upper left to the dark lanes in Scutum at lower right. Venus is rising at right amid the zodical light and some cloud. Mars, at opposition, is just setting behind the trees at left. I shot this at 4:30 a.m. April 11, 2014 from the Two Styx Cabins just outside the boundary of New England National Park, NSW, Australia. This is a stitched panorama composed of 6 segments, each taken with an 8mm fish-eye lens on the Canon 5D Mark II. So while one image with this lens aimed straight up would have recorded a similar scene. taking a panorama of 6 images, at 60° spacings, and stitching them allows the image to extend below the horizon to take in more of the ground, creating a scene that takes in a full 360° in azimuth but more than 180° in altitude. Each segment is a 1-minute untracked exposure at f/3.5 and ISO 4000. So the stars are slightly trailed. The images were stitched in PTGui using the spherical projection mode. Finishing was in Photoshop.
Spring Sky Panorama at Dinosaur Park (Spherical - North Up)
A 360° panorama of the spring sky over the Badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, on March 29, 2019, with the winter Milky Way and constellations such as Orion setting at right, and the spring constellations such as Leo filling the sky at bottom and at left. The Big Dipper is at centre nearly overhead and Polaris is at top. South is at bottom; north at the top; west is to the right, east to the left, as in most star charts. At right is also the tapering pyramid-shaped glow of the Zodiacal Light, which continues across the sky as the Zodiacal Band and brightening at lower left just above the horizon as the Gegenschein. Urban sky glows from Brooks and Calgary mar the horizon with white and yellow glows. Mars is just below the Pleiades at right in the Zodiacal Light. This is a panorama of 12 segments taken with the 14mm Sigma Art lens and Nikon D750 in portrait orientation, all for 30 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 4000. Taken at 30° spacings. Stitched with PTGui. I added a mild Orton glow effect with Luminar 3 plugin.
Spring Sky Panorama at Dinosaur Park (Spherical)
A 360° panorama of the spring sky over the Badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, on March 29, 2019, with the winter Milky Way and constellations such as Orion setting at bottom, and the spring constellations such as Leo filling the sky at top. At bottom is also the tapering pyramid-shaped glow of the Zodiacal Light, which continues across the sky as the Zodiacal Band and brightening at top just above the horizon as the Gegenschein. Urban sky glows from Brooks and Calgary mar the horizon with white and yellow glows. Mars is just below the Pleiades at bottom in the Zodiacal Light. This is a panorama of 12 segments taken with the 14mm Sigma Art lens and Nikon D750 in portrait orientation, all for 30 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 4000. Taken at 30° spacings. Stitched with PTGui. I added a mild Orton glow effect with Luminar 3 plugin.