A 360° panorama of the Milky Way from Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, with an auroral arc across the northeast at left. The Big Dipper is at far left. Sagittarius and the centre of the Galaxy with the Dark Horse feature in the dark lanes are at right of centre, above the old corral that was once used here when this was the 76 Ranch, one of the largest ranches in Canada. It is now part of the Park. The Park is a Dark Sky Preserve – the lone lights here are searchlights from naturalists conducting a census of the endangered and noctural black-footed ferret introduced back into the Park several years ago. Otherwise there are no lights here in the Frenchman River valley coulee. It is very dark!
I took this August 26, 2014 using the 14mm Rokinon lens in portrait orientation, taking 8 segments at 45° spacings, each 80 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 4000 with the Canon 6D.
The Amazing Sky 