Planet Crago

[ourkind]

An excellent turnout at Crago this weekend. The field adjascent to the observatory was buzzing with activity, we had nightscapers with DSLR's, visual observers with Dobs and SC's and a couple of astrophotographers with their heavy duty mounts and scopes to boot.

The high wind and a layer of cloud that set in around midnight were the only deterrants but overall it seemed everyone was enjoying a good night.

It was only late into the morning that the cloud floated away and the wind dropped, but by then most of the visitors had left.

I took that oportunity to try out a 360 panorama consisting of 27 frames later stitched and wrapped around in photoshop.

The images were taken as:

25 second exposures
16mm
f/2.8
ISO 4000
Canon 5D MK3

Brightness and contrast.

[Antu]

Absolutely great image ! Well done :thumbsup:

[RichardJ]

Stunning image Carlos!
Well done.

RichardJ

[Larryp]

Well done, Carlos!

[Ross G]

Looks great Carlos....different!


Ross.

[astronobob]

Awesome stuff Carlos, cool how you have used the planet earth to keep the moon tamed ;) I assume thats the moon, or could be twilight ?
Do you know of any Tutes on how to do this in PS, Id luv to give it a go . . Very interesting ?

[ourkind]

Cheers guys I appreciate the feedback and comments glad you liked it.

Bob, yep there's a stack of tuts on youtube the one I used specifically is this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECvNFxjymaM - he's a little hard to understand but I got through it. I thought he was quite thorough.

Something I've learnt from this attempt is that depending on how much land you capture in the pano determines the size of the circular planet. I have another one I'm working on at the moment, same location but earlier in the evening with cars, people, scopes etc, hopefully when I distort it into the cicular shape they will still be recognisable.

Good fun though!

Cheers :thumbsup:

[astronobob]

Cheers for this Carlos, and yep, you did very well to get through that :thumbsup: I like the amount of 'planet in your above work, lots of sky, so, yeah, a whole new ball game in Compositions etc, , Look forward to your next work of Art, Top stuff :thumbsup:

[ourkind]

Thanks Bob! Ah forgot to answer your earlier quetion, the glow is from the town of Richmond at the foot of the mountain.

This is the 2nd pano I took earlier in the night, this time with more foreground. Getting the hang of it, now just need to get some interesting subjec matter.

Cheers!

[nebulosity.]

great images Carlos, I made one of these once, but it worked out to be around 800 MP and 3 gig in size:screwy: :lol:

[Kunama]

Love the images and the idea! Beautiful work Carlos !

[ourkind]

Thanks Jo :) I had the same issue, at first I couldn't save it until I reduced it in size. Any adjustments or corrections took ages to complete, left me thinking I need to increase RAM from 4 to 8gigs.



Thanks Matt :)