Milky Way, horizon to horizon, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
After using a super wide angle lens to do a more traditional photo of the Milky Way, I switched to a lens with a 180 degree diagonal field of view, pointed my camera almost straight up, and captured the entire length of the Milky Way from horizon to horizon.
I was leading a photography workshop in Rocky Mountain National Park, and we were all in Horseshoe Park looking east in the direction of the Super Blood Moon (see my last post). I had two cameras with lenses mounted on two tripods so I didn’t have to keep switching lenses for moon and Milky Way photos.
The trees in the lower left of the photo are to the northeast. Cassiopeia is also to the lower left. The horizon in the upper right is to the southwest. Sagittarius in the upper right is slipping behind the mountain ridge. The sky glow in the lower right is from the Denver metropolitan area to the southeast.
Photo Data: Canon 5D Mark III. Canon EF 15mm fisheye lens. 30 sec, f/2.8, ISO 1600.
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