Infrared Milky Way Bow Panorama

[cazza132 (Troy Casswell)]

A night time infrared Milky Way bow panorama, with the trees and foreground illuminated for the moon light. Venus is the bright 'star' over the headland, which was in Scorpius at the time - next to Antares.
This is a very sloppy job on my part - that's what happens when your not organized or have a plan when you're on site.
But, I do believe this would be the first time an infrared Milky Way bow panorama has been attempted - under waxing gibbous moonlight. The advantage of IR is that you can cut through the blue sky glow of the moon

[WingnutR32 (Sam)]

That looks awesome, cazza132.

Well done!

[Antu]

That's quite an unusual view ! Which combination of the camera and the filter did you use ?

[cazza132 (Troy Casswell)]

Thanks Antu and WingnutR32 I used a full spectrum Canon 6D + 17mm lens with an IR650 (R65) infrared filter. Panorama - 2 rows x 5 = 10 shots. Bit more than just that. Did involve repeated shots at the same point. Probably 60 shots in total. ISO1600, 60s exposures at f6.3.

[gregbradley]

That's a great shot. Did you use a panorama head as its usually a challenge to have close object in the foreground of a panorama. Normally parallax errors would mess it up.

Nicely done.

Greg.

[cazza132 (Troy Casswell)]

Thanks Greg. Yes, I have a custom pano head (generation 5 for me). Design it and had it fabricated from 10mm stainless steel - weighs about 8kg! which helps when there's a lot of wind. Yes, parallax can be quite an issue, esp with close foreground objects. Just have to remember to slide forward or back for different lenses

[Ross G]

A beautiful photo Troy and an interesting concept.

Looks great!

Ross.

[multiweb (Marc)]

That's out of the box. Very cool shot. Like an alien planet.