A 360° panorama and from horizon to zenith of the southern sky and Milky Way from Smoky Cape and the grounds of the Lighthouse and Cottages. The Dark Emu in Crux and Centaurus is rising at left, while Canis Major and Sirius are setting right of center. The Magellanic Clouds are left of centre. The evening Zodiacal Light is visible arching up from the west at right, with Jupiter the bright object in the Zodiacal Band at right. The Lighthouse itself is just behind the trees on the hill at left and is ouf of sight though its beams are lighting the sky above the trees. Other sky colouration comes from light pollution and from airglow. I like the way the arch of the Milky Way mirrors the arch in the trees on the hillside sweeping down to the beach. I stayed for four nights in the cottage at right, and the dark window in the room at right was mine. The panorama is a stitch of 9 segments, each shot with the 15mm full-frame fish-eye lens in portrait orientation, and at f/2.8 with the Canon 6D at ISO 3200. All exposures 1 minute, untracked on a tripod. Stitched in PTGui using equirectangular projection.
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.
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 right. At left is the faint glow of Gegenschein amid the Zodiacal Band across the dim area of the autumn sky. 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 an equirectangular projection.
