They do say the the image "captured in a single frame a four hour exposure of the night sky." That would seem to preclude panning and stitching or using several cameras. I guess they used a special panorama camera -- or special lens --capable of capturing a full 360 degree view. Such things apparently do exist.
http://www.0-360.com/ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/09/980909071523.htm Dan On 6/13/07, Tom Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that's quite a picture. The explanation doesn't go into detail about how he > did it though. It's awfully close to a full 360 degrees shot. Panning the > camera and stitching wouldn't work because the camera had to stay put. > > I'm guessing that he used multiple cameras and stitched the images? > > thanks for posting that Daniel. Fascinating picture (and NO clouds!) > > Tom Reese > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "Daniel J. Matyola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >From the Astronomy Picture of the Day page, a stunning photograph of > > star trails around both celestial poles: > > > > http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070613.html > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
