07/09/2026
Monaro panorama
Some may have seen most posts relating to planning a shoot and I will post further videos with some tips for preparing in the coming days.
One thing no amount of planning can do to address is the weather - unexpected fog. Despite assurances from the weather data, clouds totally obscured the heavens shortly after it got dark. Sadly I packed all my gear for the 90 minute drive home. However, I noticed it was slightly clearer near the Cooma township and decided to head out to this site which had been in the back of my mind.
To be frank I was feeling slightly de-energised with the impact of the clouds (a session over the weekend had similarly been decimated after I had carefully set up all my gear). Anyway, I decided to take a series of vertical shots, six in all, with 8 shots to be stacked using a 14 mm lens at f2.8, shot for 15 seconds at ISO 8000 of these two wonderful windmills. I then combined them all to form the full panorama of the westing Milky Way together with the Magellanic Clouds to the left. Whilst my original intent was to shoot tracked shots to create the panorama of the Milky Way, since it was getting late I decided to go this way. I am quite pleased with how this turned out and will give the spot another go to get tracked images shortly and a foreground shot during blue hour (my problems were also exacerbated as to create the foreground my intervalometer battery had run out.
Anyway what do you think?
Ian
