Summer milkyway.

[Joshua Bunn (Joshua)]

Hi all!

A full 360 deg panorama of the summer milky way from Little beach and waterfall beach, near two peoples bay, Albany. A decent amount of work involved with this one. The sky was tracked on an Ioptron sky tracker for 2.5 min, while the land was exposed separately for 2.5 min un-tracked. They were later blended in post processing. Not the best job in blending, but I'm learning all the time.

Details: Canon 5d mkll with a Samyang 14mm lens @f2.8, at ISO 3200. One dark frame subtracted from every image.

Higher resolution: http://astrob.in/full/143419/0/

Thanks for looking.

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

That's great Joshua I love how you can see the large nebulae in the Milky Way.

A great location.

Jo

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Gee .... that's nice

Col....

[Joshua Bunn (Joshua)]

It is a great location, Thanks Jo and Col!

[Irish stargazer (John)]

Nice

[hotspur (Chris)]

very good,great work,

[PeterM]

An artwork. Very,very nice Joshua! My new screen saver (if thats ok)

[skysurfer]

Nice picture !

But when you make a Fisheye projection, the constellations get less distorted. Canopus looks very far from Orion which is not the case in reality. And Orion is also rather distorted.

Did you try Hugin ? It is a great stitching app and free as well ! It stitches Samyang 14 frames (made on a fullframe) very well.

[Joshua Bunn (Joshua)]

Thankyou John and Chris!

Thanks Peter, absolutely, go for it

Thanks for the suggestion Skysurfer. I didnt try Hugin, maybe i will. This was Done in PTGui. Fisheye has less distortion for sure.