Road to the Stars
by Rodney Campbell on Sep.09, 2019, under Life, Photography
Hmmm… so here I am in really dark skies territory and the moon won’t be rising for a while. I’m camped literally 50m from this epic little valley with boab trees, epic rock formations and nice spinifex grasses. Hmm, what should one do…
It’s definitely astro panorama time…
Boy – this Novoflex multi row pano rail certainly makes things much easier for taking the source frames for these panorama’s
Be they vertical single row pano’s like this – taken from horizon to horizon so they represent a bit over 180˚ of view
Spinifex Streak
NIKON Z 7 + 14.0 mm f/2.4 @ 14 mm, 15 sec at f/2.4, ISO 6400 x 8 Frames
When taking a vertical panorama like this I’m aiming to include pretty much the entire visible milky way streak in the sky. With the milky way essentially vertical in the sky. What this flattened image is showing you is how the milky way goes from one horizon point in front of you straight up into the sky and over your head and down to the horizon 180˚ behind you
In the image here I’ve left in the view in the other direction behind you (at the top of the image) so you can see what I normally crop out of the final image
Road to the Stars
NIKON Z 7 + 14.0 mm f/2.4 @ 14 mm, 15 sec at f/2.4, ISO 6400 x 8 Frames
To take these images I’m taking a sequence of exposures with the camera horizontal. First one take pointing downwards in front of me. The one taken pointing straight ahead (actually rotated 36˚ up from the first exposure). Then another raised again (another 36˚ up). Repeating this process rotating the camera upwards 36˚ at a time. Then I’m pointing straight up then slightly behind me and so on. Eventually I’m pointing towards the ground behind me and that’s done
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