Belt of Venus.

[Peter Ward]

Decided to abandon Sydney's wet weather and head toward the red centre.

Took some happy snaps.

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/galleryOS8.html

[multiweb]

Great shot. I'm a bit confused about the whole picture. Is that the earth shadow in the back of the rock and the sun is setting/rising to the left of the picture right? Is this like a 360 wrap (in width)?

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Marc....

It's a 360 degree horizon shot.

The (nearly) full moon is over the rock, the sun has just set (far left or right ;) ) with the Earh's shadow slowly rising above the rock.

[multiweb]

:lol: Got it now. I thought the bright point was Venus. That confused the hell out of me. Wrong side of the pic :P

[h0ughy]

Ahh this a trial shot for the DM's Peter

[Peter Ward]

Is that a question or statement? :D

[h0ughy]

well both really - but i await your statement;)

[suma126]

i love the rich red colours :thumbsup:

[sheeny]

Gorgeous, Peter!

Al.

[alexch]

Very nice indeed!
Did you make a QTVR from it as well?

[prokyon]

Wonderful, would be a great poster for my living room. :thumbsup:

[Peter Ward]

Thanks, and yes I did do a QTVR! ...but with a 2400 pixel cube face it's not web friendly. The full sized panorama is around 7500 pixels wide.

[alexch]

For web I found Pano2VR quite good. You just drop the MOV file on it and it can convert to Flash 8 or 9,10 SWF file with adjustable quality.

Here is a recent one:
http://www.terrastro.com/vr/cape_schanck/
(http://www.terrastro.com/vr/cape_schanck/)
Alex

[multiweb]

Nice! :thumbsup: Pretty cool converter too.

[Peter Ward]

Very pretty shot Alex! What lens did you use for the Panorama?

[alexch]

Thanks, I did this one with a 10.5mm Nikon Fisheye with the hood shaved for a full-frame camera. It gives about 200 degrees of usable field so I only needed 3 shots for full 360 degrees. Final pano is only 4000 pixels wide but stitching only three images together is much easier.

Alex

[bloodhound31]

Awesome! I got a similar pic to the west on sunrise at Mount Kosciusko this Australia Day. That's impressive mate!

[supernova1965]

I love the shot really good. At the risk of confirming my self as dumb could someone please explain the title of the Belt of Venus.

[Octane]

The purple, etc, colours on the horizon at sunset are referred to as the Belt of Venus (http://users.tpg.com.au/octane2/johc.html).

H

[supernova1965]

Thanks for that Octane I was trying to see Venus and was hurting my eye's:lol::eyepop:. The link didn't work though.

[iceman]

Beautiful picture. Lovely work.

[StephenM]

Very nice Peter!

Cheers,
Stephen

[RB]

Absolutely beautiful.

:thumbsup:

[Peter Ward]

A humble thankyou indeed for those who have responded so positively to this image.

Ayers Rock....as it was called when I went to school...or Uluru... is not exactly an easy place to get to.

Even when you do tick that box, it is quite difficult to get to a good/unique vantage point...as the locals and "PC police" have made even photographing the bugger quite difficult.

...quite odd given that this ancient piece of geology pre-dates any human claims/sensitivities....but I digress.

Suffice to say, I ignored quite a few signs :D

[venus]

WOW that is amazing...