A Winter Night’s Sky
At this time of year, I find a renewed fascination with things celestial, and I hope you find this Christmas offering to be more than dots in the sky and sage on the ground. I very much appreciate all of you who subscribe to these mailings and take a moment out your busy days to view these panoramas. I enjoy receiving your posts and emails, and try to answer them all (I’m sure I miss some).
Utah has many great areas from which to view the night sky. This panorama was made between Kanab and Lake Powell. The opened panorama text will contain a link to a second panorama with constellations labeled:
Whatever holiday you might observe, I hope for you the very best.
Merry Christmas,
Martin
18 Comments
Other Links to this Post
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI
By martha miller, 12/19/2011 @ 8:53 am
love your work!!!
By Dave Paterniti, 12/19/2011 @ 9:11 am
Wow………..what more can you say. WOW!!
By Bud W. Stephenson, 12/19/2011 @ 9:19 am
Martin,
We have enjoyed these right along. If physically capable we would still be out somewhere camping on state parks, blm land, forests, etc. where we spent almost every weekend in our 20-60′s. Your work is only next best to the real thing!
By Ruby Bryan, 12/19/2011 @ 10:04 am
I love this, Please keep my email from you going, this is so wonderful to see. Have a Merry Christmas this 2011 and have a Great New Year in 2012.
By Gregg Childs, 12/19/2011 @ 10:11 am
Hi, Martin -
Glorius! Simply stunning, Martin. There are so many items in this 360 that make it great: the foreground, the bright portions on the horizon, the dirt road, and of course the night sky. For the foreground, did you paint it with flashlight? And, I’m curious about your camera settings: ISO, exposure time, etc? How were you able to get the beautiful night sky with no noise in the exposure?
The night sky in the Rockies is truly breathtaking. The first time I really saw the night sky was at Maroon Lake near Aspen, Colorado.
Thanks, Martin. This will be sent out to all of my friends.
Gregg
By Sue, 12/19/2011 @ 10:24 am
I have enjoyed all of your panoramas, and like this one too. Thank you! Happy Holidays to you!
By Betty Armacost, 12/19/2011 @ 10:25 am
Magnificent, mesmerizing.
Thanks.
By Lynn Johnson, 12/19/2011 @ 10:41 am
The Utah sky at night always impressed me with how many stars were visible. Being a “city dweller” we are lucky to see the very brightest stars here in Illinois. Milky Way looks splendid. Wonder what that brightest star in the middle of the sky is?
By Don Gilmore, 12/19/2011 @ 12:48 pm
Martin: As always, nice job. I would like to make a suggestion, maybe you’ve already heard this one, if so just ignore it. One the Second Panorama, I think it would be nice to see N – S – E – W directions so we’d know which direction we were looking? Also the town lights in the distance, maybe locate them on the panorama, Maybe one was Kanab? If this is a lot of trouble, but it would be nice, at least to me.
Happy Holidays to to you and your also Our home page has a video we made for holiday wishes..
Don Gilmore…
By ROCCO DeROBERTIS, 12/19/2011 @ 5:04 pm
BEAUTIFUL – FOR US ASTRO UNEDUCATED PLEASE NAME SOME OF THE AREA’S AND STARS – PLEASE
THIS IA AW ENSPIRERING.
By Anne, 12/19/2011 @ 5:23 pm
Thanks, that is just so beautiful! I look forward to your panorama e mails.
Merry Christmas to you too & a Happy, Healthy New Year.
By JoyceB, 12/19/2011 @ 6:10 pm
Fantastic, Martin…..I am glad for the labeled constallations also….thank you; I was thinking needing one while viewing the the first panorama!
By martin, 12/19/2011 @ 10:07 pm
Hi Don, good to hear from you. Your suggestions are great. As far as the cardinal directions, on a previous sky panorama I put them, and I don’t know why I didn’t think of it here. I will have to update the image in the next week or so.
Merry Christmas,
Martin
By judy, 12/19/2011 @ 10:30 pm
This is mesmerizing!!! Fabulous pics!!
By Mary Jane, 12/21/2011 @ 9:05 am
Hi Martin….simply magnificent…it fully absorbed my vision. Thanks for the Seasons gift.
By martin, 12/21/2011 @ 11:34 pm
Hi Gregg,
Thanks for your comments! Regarding your questions, yes, the foreground was painted with a flashlight. Exposures were, as I recall F4.0 or F5.6, 30 seconds, at an ISO of 4000-5000. LightRoom helps with noise reduction.
Best,
Martin
By Theo v/d.Aa, 12/26/2011 @ 3:37 am
Dear Martin
This is beautiful picture to watch. So different as my country( http://www.dakvanrotterdam.nl/)
Merry Christmas to you too & a Happy, Healthy New Year
Theo
By martin, 01/05/2012 @ 9:42 pm
Hi Theo,
Yes, Holland is different, and beautiful in its own way. I enjoyed the Rotterdam panoramas. I have been to Den Haag, Leiden, and Delft (my mother is from Delft), but never Rotterdam.
I hope you had a good Christmas, and that your New Year is good as well.
Bedankt,
Martin van Hemert