The Burning Cross, 150 shots milky way pano (Lights and Darks Photography (Thomas Schifer))

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The Burning Cross, 150 shots milky way pano

The complete arch of the northern summer milky way over a mountain top in the Eastern Austrian Alps.
1800 meters above sea level and bortle 3 sky up there. However, to the Nordeast one can spot the heavily light poluted area of the Vienna Basin.
The Cross looks red because it reflects the lights of the pinwheels. One does not see this with the naked eye. It is only seeable due to the long time exposure of the foreground shots. You can see the same effect in the windows of the hut, which are in the direction of the pinwheels.
It is my first zenith pano and I have to say that I tried lots of different projections in PTGui and ended up with using a stereographic projection for the sky and a normal spherical projection for the foreground. I just didn`t like the normally used Mercator projection, as it stretches the zenith region vertically in an extreme way. I am not absoltuely happy with the way it turned out, but I will leave it by now and come back later and maybe work on it again.
It´s a mosaic of 44 panels and the sky is tracked and stacked. Some panels are a stack of 8 panels, some a stack of 5 and the regions with less "action" are less subs. All pics taken in a single night. The foreground shots are also taken in the complete dark and the crucial parts are focus stacked (e. g. the Cross).
Shot with a full spectrum astromodified Canon RP and an Optolong L-Pro light polution filter and the Sigma 40mm f 1,4 Art lens.
About 15% of the normal resolution!

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