Vertigo

While in mid northern lattitudes the Milky Way is arching along the horizon in spring and early summer, its starry band turns vertical and goes right through the zenith in late summer.

 

To capture the whole band means shooting a vertical panorama or "vertorama". Capturing a tracked vertorama is technically more difficult than a regular tracked panorama, but the real challenge is to publish such an image online:

 

One possibility is a small panning movie. For the vertorama it has to rotate by 180° in the middle. This solution is elegant, but it does not allow the viewer to enjoy and explore the different parts of the image longer than a few seconds.

 

I tried it with this vertorama taken on Grimsel Pass in Switzerland.

 

What do you think of it?

 

EXIF

Canon EOS 6D astro modified

Tamron 15-30mm f2.8 @ 15mm

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

Low Lewel Lighting

Sky:

4 panels, each a stack of 4 x 30s @ ISO3200, tracked

Foreground:

2 panels, each a stack of 6 x 30s @ ISO3200

Reflection:

Stack of 4 x 30s @ ISO3200, tracked

 

Soundtrack: "Riding on a Sunbeam" by Alexander Eichler

Done