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 (Marc)]

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 (Marc)]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[h0ughy (David)]

Ahh this a trial shot for the DM's Peter

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

Ahh this a trial shot for the DM's Peter

Is that a question or statement?

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Is that a question or statement?

well both really - but i await your statement

[suma126 (Shane)]

i love the rich red colours

[sheeny (Al)]

Gorgeous, Peter!

Al.

[alexch (Alex)]

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

[prokyon (Werner Probst)]

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

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by alexch

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

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 (Alex)]

Originally Posted by 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.

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/

Alex

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by 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/

Alex

Nice! Pretty cool converter too.

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by alexch

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

Alex

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

[alexch (Alex)]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

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

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 (Warren)]

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 (Humayun)]

The purple, etc, colours on the horizon at sunset are referred to as the Belt of Venus.

H

[supernova1965 (Warren)]

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