This is a picture of the great 36-inch refractor telescope of the Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton, California. The observatory dome is big but it would take an ultra-wide-angle lens to take such a picture, with a field of view of about 150° horizontally and 120° vertically. Instead of this, this picture is a composite of three rows of three shots each, taken free-hand with a Nikon D70 and a Nikkor 18-70mm lens at the wide end, stitched in rectangular projection with Pano Tools.
photowolf, gialloporpora, superka_01, nikolett.jozsef, and 2 other people added this photo to their favorites.
"Benito Aramando" 80 months ago | reply
fantastic; very nicely done
photowolf 73 months ago | reply
ruei_ke 63 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Lick Observatory, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.