This is the northern winter sky and Milky Way over Bryce Canyon National Park, with the waning crescent Moon in frame lighting the sky and landscape below. The site was the Fairyland Canyon viewpoint, on the morning of September 27, 2024. It is a vertical panorama — a "vertorama."

Orion is right of centre, with the bright star Sirius in Canis Major below. Left of centre is Gemini, with red Mars in it. The bright object above centre is Jupiter, in Taurus, with the Pleiades at top. Auriga is at top left. Many star clusters and a few pale reddish nebulas show up along the Milky Way.

The sky is blue from the moonlight, but also has some bands of colored airglow at bottom.

Technical:
This is a vertical panorama of three segments: two for the sky, each a stack of 4 x 1-minute exposures, and one segment for the ground which is a stack of 2 x 2-minute exposures. All with the Canon RF15-35mm lens at 15mm and f/2.8, with the Canon R5 at ISO 1600 for the sky and ISO 800 for the ground. The camera was in landscape orientation. The sky segments were tracked on the MSM Nomad tracker. The tracker motor was off for the ground images. For the sky images the lens had an URTH broadband light pollution Night filter, to increase contrast in the moonlight.

Sky segments stitched in PTGui with transverse equirectangular projection which produced the least distortion and flat horizon. Sky and ground elements blended in Photoshop. Star diffraction spikes added for artistic effect with AstronomyTools actions. Mild glow effects added with Nik Color EFX and Luminar Neo through luminosity masks.

The original is 10,600 by 7,500 pixels.