On the Friday afternoon before the CWAS Astrofest/Malin Awards in Parkes, Greg Gibbs and I met up out at 'The Dish', despite the fairly ordinary weather. Having stuck out a cloudy couple of hours (and light rain), we waited for a clear gap on the horizon visible at sunset and were treated to a short sucker hole, just as the skies got dark, which lasted all of 15 minutes. Can't exactly remember but I think it started raining again after that so we gave up.
After dinner in town, I stuck my head outside again later and was surprised to see what looked like clear skies so I went back to the dish (a well traveled road) and manage to capture this one. I'm still a relative newbie at night sky panoramas, but have to admit I like the couple of results I've tried recently.
You can see a larger version here, but this holds up very well even in much larger format than this:
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I took some of my own advice and shot this at lower ISO (400) to reduce the amount of blown-out highlights (which is still tough). I can't see any difference in the sky detail compared to shots I take at ISO3200. So gotta say the 6D is a damn impressive camera.. this is a straight four shot pano with 24mm lens at f2.8, 30 secs each.. no HDR/compositing etc.
Enjoy :-)
Phil