Sea Ranch Night

Had a nice trip up to Sea Ranch along the California coast and was fortunate enough to get a clear night to try some night photography.  Here is a shot off the balcony of the house pointing South of the Milky Way.  The glow is the San Francisco bay area about 100 miles away.

This next picture is an attempt at doing a night panorama.  This is mostly the Southern sky to about overhead.  There is some parallax bending from the 14mm lens.  There was approximately 10 of the 26 shots used to generate this portion.  The extreme edges tend to show more distortion.

All picture shot at 14mm on a DX sensor at 30 seconds, ISO 1000.

Here is actually a better panoramic build.  I tried fisheye thus giving a bit of vignetting in the upper corners.  I cropped most of it out but did not want to loose too much of the bottom track.