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The gift of an eagle's perch with the curse of leaden feet

*If you'd like to learn more about night-sky panoramas or my post-processing techniques, join me next month in Arches!*

 

I took this one in July of this summer while scouting locations for my flagship night-sky workshop at Crater Lake National Park. The sky was absolutely ablaze with green, orange, and red airglow on this particular night.

 

This is a fairly busy and popular location, although not nearly as popular as other locations along Rim Road. Regardless, I wanted to give a slightly different perspective to this much-photographed location, so I opted for a transverse Mercator projection to this panorama, which encompasses an approximately 170-degree by 170-degree field of view. (In short, you're seeing ground that was nearly straight down from my camera and sky that was nearly at the zenith.)

 

Thanks for taking a look!

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Uploaded on October 12, 2016
Taken on July 6, 2016