More Milky Way Mapping

This is quite a large segment of the milky way, now largely overhead. It covers from almost the northern horizon to well over head. Made of 5 photos combined with autostitch with auto straighten turned off. (The image below has it turned on)

Bay of Islands, 4 panoramas

Southern Cross at the Tropic of Capricorn

Southern Cross at the Tropic of Capricorn I, originally uploaded by imageo.

This image of the milky way, including the southern cross, low on the horizon is an autostitched multi-image panorama based on 14 separate long exposure images


For PhotoFriday‘s topic After Dark

Starry, Starry Night

Some experiments with trying to map the sky at night. Using a set of 15 second exposures. Autostitch is actually up to the task, providing you have something detailed in the foregrounds, but I much prefer the warmer tines of my simple picasa picture pile collage.