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Milky Way Montages

Started by Steve OK, 08/25/2006 11:35PM
Posted 08/25/2006 11:35PM | Edited 08/26/2006 11:35PM Opening Post
Here is a problem to ponder...

You want to make a 180° panorama of the summer Milky Way with your digital camera. You have a GEM and a pan-head for the camera (it pans around an axis perpendicular to its base). How do you mount the pan-head to the GEM dovetail so that by panning around its single axis, your camera stays square to the galactic equator? By doing this, your digital images (puzzle pieces) line up along a straight line with no rotation needed to stich them together into a panorama.

I devised a way, which I used to take the photo I posted here on 8/20...I'll share it with you later 8)

How would you do it?

Steve