My First wide Field Pano of our Home

[sed8me]

Hello,
This is my first post on Ice In Space.
I decided to go for a Drive to a reasonably dark place to make a MilkyWay panno. After a good ol' play in Stelarium, I found the placement and shape to be quite good for about 3.30 am.
Image is composed of 7 shots in a straight line vertical panorama from 215 Degrees to 35 Degrees.
ISO 1250
30 Sec
F 3.5
At 18mm
White Balance = Daylight

It seems Upon arrival it hit the dew point, and the orange cast is from 2-3 porch lights within 500meters
Ideally I see this as a vertical image, tho I rotated it 90degrees clockwise for ease of viewing on your monitors.
After this first attempt, I am already planning for a f1.4 lens !
I hope you all like it, and would greatly appreciate any feedback.

BTW
I applied Black point, lens correction and noise reduction in Lightroom and a tiny colour correction to make up for the Dew.

Overall the 240km round trip to Tyaak was well worth it just for the view and joy in this learning experience ( new obsession )

[rmuhlack]

:welcome:

That is a great image - will have to try something like that myself next time i am out at my *really* dark site. Thanks for sharing :)

[sed8me]

Thank you rmuhlack,
That means alot, having seen your image of M83 !
I hope u enjoy your Really dark place, lol.
I shall have to find one myself, tho according to the light pollution maps I can find, I am up for a decent drive, tho I am sure I could just hide away from them damned porch lights !

[DavidU]

That's nicely done ! Keep it up.:thumbsup:

[DavidTrap]

Nice shot.

The 200Kb limit doesn't really do these shots justice!

I shot one of these recently with a 50mm F1.4. They sound like a great option, but just remember they usually need to be stopped down a bit before they are really sharp across the frame.

DT

[Tom_88]

Nice Shot! :thumbsup: