Milkyway Panorama

[MaCross]

Ta muchly for your ever so kind comments folks!

@ Shibby, I am afraid not, its just the light pollution from the nearby village.

[jnc71106]

Really nice thanks for sharing

[whooshbang]

what a beauty! thanks for sharing such an interesting image!

[Astromart]

Hi Macross,

Tremendous image. Well done.

[Sierra Golf Mike]

Absolutely stunning and completely different. Good work.

[stevedodkins]

Beautiful image and beautiful idea, i'm going to have to have a try myself.

Steve

[MaCross]

Once again.... Ta so muchly folks! I am very happy that this pic gets so many nice comments from you expert lot!

@ stevedodkins, oh yes, please do! (and dont forget to post it here )

[Ransu]

Beautiful! And very good idea

[Tim]

Brilliant!

[ollypenrice]

Yup, I have posted already but will do so again. I think this is brilliant, original and a lot harder than it might look. I 've been thinking about doing one like it in the summer and then thought, Hang on, you do you... etc etc. It would be on my personal POW shortlist even when the list was getting... pretty darned short!

Olly

[MaCross]

Cheers everyone!

@ Olly, you can come and comment a third time, I dont mind at all

Oh please do he same shot from your place!!! It would be really nice to see how someone does this who has got a clue (or two)

[Beyond_Vision]

A fantastic image and very well stitched together as other have said it would make a great poster . I had a go at doing this a couple of years ago from the the top of Frocester Hill in Gloucestershire but was using a 10mm lens and struggled to get the images stitched together due the distortion.

Regards

Kevin

[Photosbykev]

A fantastic image and very well stitched together as other have said it would make a great poster . I had a go at doing this a couple of years ago from the the top of Frocester Hill in Gloucestershire but was using a 10mm lens and struggled to get the images stitched together due the distortion.

Regards

Kevin

It's a cracking view from the top of Frocester Hill

[MrsR]

WOW

[Steve 1962]

Very lovely indeed

[tiwar]

I`d love to see a bigger version!!!

T x

[MaCross]

Cheers yet again everyone who took time to have a look and comment!

@ Kevin, oh I bet you struggeled with 10mm! Its not easy with 17mm either, but what are a few billion stars +- among friends

[RobH]

Wow!!

I don't know how I missed this.

Stunning work Martina

Do you mind giving a few details about how you did it?

I just got a DSLR and have had my first attempts at widefield imaging, but nothing good enough to post at the moment, so picking your brains would be great!!

Cheers

Rob

[MaCross]

CHeers Rob! Sory for the late reply, but we are really busy renovation just now...

Congrats on your DSLR!! YOU will have a fantastic time capturing widefields, I am sure!

There was not much to the photos at all. I just looked for the best foreground (both ways), shot the first photo, actually two photos the same, moved the camera from this position to pointing right up to capture the middle bit of the pano, two pics again and the the last part of the pano with the foreground again.

I did that about ten times and hoped that I would have some correct-ish overlapping to stitch the panorama.

At home I discovered that two photos were actually enough overlapping-wise and so I manually got the two pics together in PS.

Distortion with the 17-40L on a fullframe 5DmkII is quite a problem so this pano does not claim any astronomical accurancy at all

[dezmo1]

Now that's super cool!