Hi all,
This is actually the sort of shot I went to this location at this time to do. I love doing these straight horizon panoramas of the night sky. If you want to try this for yourself the best advice I can give is wait for the plane of the Milky Way to be relatively low in the sky if you can (a few hours before the central bulge sets in the west is best). The central bulge was practically overhead for this shot and it took a lot of photos even with a super wide angle lens to capture enough of the sky and foreground to minimise the inevitable distortion caused by this sort of projection.
This is the last in my series from this night. Even though I have a few more data sets I could use I think these three are enough. Any more and it becomes too 'samey'.
The first two in the series.....
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=92809 and
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=92932
"Milky Waybow"
Same equipment as detailed in the first image thread.
24 images
About 270 degree field of view horizontally and about 130 degrees vertically
higher res version can be found here
http://500px.com/photo/9115960
Cheers
Greg